The analytics and statistics of the website are only be used by ECharts maintainers to check: "whether our work makes sense." or even "whether the whole project makes sense."
The statistics from the website have been playing a core role in the development of the ECharts project in the past years. There are few approaches to know whether many users are still using ECharts, choosing ECharts, and how to use it, and which charts/components/features are used frequently and which are rarely used. So the website analysis guides the maintainers to make better decisions about out further work, do not based on the imagination but based on some information from the real world. Without them, we, the maintainers, will become more and more blind, which is very harmful to the ECharts project. So + 1 (binding) ------------------------------ Su Shuang (100pah) ------------------------------ On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 23:06, Ovilia <[email protected]> wrote: > ECharts Website currently uses Baidu Tongji [1] as the analytics tool. > To make the information accessible to all PMC members, we are going to add > Google Analytics. > > Please vote for this suggestion: > For the time being, we suggest > 1.0 Making http://echarts.apache.org be the default Website > 1.1 Linking it from GitHub project (done) > 1.2 Linking it from the "Home" button in the navbar (done) > 1.3 Linking it from the "En" button in Chinese Website (done) > 1.4 Removing Baidu Tongji > 1.5 Creating a Google account that can be accessed by all PMC members > and adding Google Analytics in Website > 2 Making https://www.echartsjs.com be the default Chinese Website > 2.1 Linking it from "中文" (Chinese) button in http://echarts.apache.org > 2.2 Redirecting https://echarts.baidu.com to it > 2.3 Adding Google Analytics in Website > 2.4 Creating a Baidu account that can be accessed by all PMC members. > (Although the product is Chinese-only, you can get access to the data if > you wish. And translation tools may offer some help.) > > When we have the server provided by Huawei, we wish to make the Chinese > Website under http://echarts.apache.org, probably something like > http://zh.echarts.apache.org. > By that time, we will be able to come to a conclusion about whether Google > Analytics lost some information from China (because the access to some > Google products is limited in China), and decide whether to stick only to > Google Analytics or both. > > [1] http://tongji.baidu.com > > Wenli Zhang >
