Skip to content

Add analytics (for Rev News) #57

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom
Closed
tfnico opened this issue Apr 17, 2015 · 5 comments
Closed

Add analytics (for Rev News) #57

tfnico opened this issue Apr 17, 2015 · 5 comments

Comments

@tfnico
Copy link
Contributor

tfnico commented Apr 17, 2015

Some statistics would be a nice motivation tool.
@tfnico tfnico mentioned this issue Apr 19, 2015
Closed
@tfnico tfnico mentioned this issue May 8, 2015
Closed
tfnico added a commit that referenced this issue Oct 11, 2015
@tfnico
add google analytics
38df934 
See issue #57

We want to be able to track the popularity of the Git Rev News. Hence,
adding some sort of tracking would be valuable and motivational. Perhaps
some people don't like the notion of Google tracking traffic, but it is
currently the de-facto way of measuring internet traffic, and it
requires no server-side modification, which would otherwise be difficult
on GitHub Pages/Jekyll.

The initial tracking is made to my own Google Analytics account, but
once it works I'll try to find out how it can be shared with other Git
Rev News editors.
@tfnico
Copy link
Contributor Author

tfnico commented Oct 11, 2015

@chriscool FYI, I just pushed this.

@chriscool
Copy link
Collaborator

Yeah, I got an email. Thanks!

@tfnico
Copy link
Contributor Author

tfnico commented Oct 12, 2015

Analytics are starting to trickle in now, so it's working.

@tfnico tfnico closed this as completed Oct 12, 2015
moy pushed a commit to moy/git.github.io that referenced this issue Feb 13, 2016
@tfnico @moy
add google analytics
95a1872 
See issue git#57

We want to be able to track the popularity of the Git Rev News. Hence,
adding some sort of tracking would be valuable and motivational. Perhaps
some people don't like the notion of Google tracking traffic, but it is
currently the de-facto way of measuring internet traffic, and it
requires no server-side modification, which would otherwise be difficult
on GitHub Pages/Jekyll.

The initial tracking is made to my own Google Analytics account, but
once it works I'll try to find out how it can be shared with other Git
Rev News editors.
@tfnico
Copy link
Contributor Author

tfnico commented Aug 26, 2016

@chriscool I just checked the analytics for the first time in a while now. Looks pretty stable on around 900 visitors per month. In March there was a super-boost with hundreds of sessions per day - perhaps that was when we were linked from LWN (?).

If I am reading the analytics correctly, it appears that only the first 50 or so stay on the page for more than a minute. It could be that this is distorted due to desktop browsers having adblockers and other stuff that disable the analytics, not sure.

@chriscool
Copy link
Collaborator

Ok thanks for the report @tfnico !

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Assignees
No one assigned
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Milestone
No milestone
Development

No branches or pull requests
2 participants
@chriscool @tfnico