[OpenLayers-Dev] analytics

[Tim Schaub]

Hey-

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> 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.

Ok.  Done (kick).

We'll see how that does.  Only modified foot.html so no special class 
names or real track hacking involved.

Thanks (for feedback & svn up'ping),
Tim

> 
>> 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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