[OpenLayers-Dev] analytics

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 05:29:37PM -0600, Tim Schaub wrote:
> Hey-
> 
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:54:56PM -0600, Tim Schaub wrote:
> >> Hey-
> >>
> >> Are the results from Google Analytics for http://openlayers.org 
> >> available anywhere publicly?
> >>
> >> I'm particularly interested in visits for Sept 1, 08 - Feb 28, 09 
> >> (inclusive).
> >>
> >> I'd also be curious to hear download stats for the same time period.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any info.
> > 
> > Not that I'm aware of, but I'm happy to make them available to anyone
> > who is interested; if you give me a Google account, I'll gladly add you
> > as an administrator on the site, and you can mess around or add people
> > to your heart's content.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> It looks like we should at least be able to track downloads from the 
> homepage with something like the patch for 
> http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1989.

Tracking downloads is reasonably easy from logs, in my opinion; I just
haven't written the log parser to do it. That said, I have no problems
with making it easier for multiple people to see it by putting it in
analytics; if you're happy with it, check it in :) Website is still
manual 'svn up', so kick me after it's checked in and I'll update it. 

> Not sure about adding a class name to wiki links, but we could also 
> modify the patch to look for all anchors with href matching 
> /^(http:\/\/openlayers.org)?\/download\//.

I'm totally cool with anything you want to suggest; trac modifications
are a bit hacky at the moment, so I'll try and dig those out and get
them published next week so that other people can get involved.

Note that any modifications we make to trac will have to be made again
after we migrate to OSGeo.

> Thoughts?
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> > 
> > Note that until the end of December, very little of OpenLayers traffic
> > was measured by analytics: only the homepage visits. Starting At that
> > time (I can look in SVN for exact commits) trac, api docs,
> > documentation, etc. were all added. 
> > 
> > If there's a way to make stats publicly available through Google
> > anaytics (or if anyone has a preferred tool other than Google analytics
> > which does), I'm happy to switch things over or change settings. 
> > 
> > Regards,
> 
> 
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