[OpenLayers-Dev] analytics

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:58:21PM -0600, Tim Schaub wrote:
> 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.

note that foot.html is not used in trac, so I'll need to port this stuff
into trac when I get time. Also, I went to svn up and realized it was
already done, so apparently the website is automatically updated from
svn :) 

> 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,
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Tim Schaub
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