Hello Tim, I think this is a great idea. I used this tool in my personal blog and found it very much. BTW could I ask you to grant me access for harmony.apache.org analytics results?
Thanks, Yuri On 9/14/07, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alex Blewitt wrote: > > I've used it for both my personal site and it's also used for > > EclipseZone. Can be quite useful, especially seeing historical and > > spikes in trends (e.g. does it go up because a new version of Harmony > > is packaged with Eclipse?). > > Yep, I was also thinking of the discussions that have taken place here > amongst the website folk about trying different designs, and figuring > out how to best layout the site. Hopefully it would help them with some > concrete data. > > > It involves putting some 'pingback' JavaScript code on the website; > > there may be some people morally opposed to doing that, or to going to > > a site that has it. I suspect Google may be more trusted than other > > sites, but there may also be people who dislike any kind of site > > tracking (but then, they'll use NoScript, right?) > > Yep, I have to admit I have a slight unease about 'secretly' tracking > people browsing a website, but I guess it is no different to the data > that is already being collected in the weblogs. > > > Does Apache (generally) have policies in this place regarding such > > tracking or advertising in Apache pages that might come into play? > > The option of tracking seems to be left to the discretion of the project > themselves. It has been discussed on a couple of lists, and a number of > well established ASF projects are using it. I don't think there is a > formal policy. > > Advertising is different, and there is a stronger opinion about any form > of advertising or kick-backs to project supporters (e.g. displaying a > logo in return for a license). I'm not advocating that we get into that > game here. > > Regards, > Tim > > > > On 13/09/2007, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I see that a number of other projects are using Google Analytics to > >> measure the effectiveness of their website layout (e.g., can people > find > >> the info they need?) and popularity of pages and downloads (e.g., are > >> the most popular pages prominent?). > >> > >> The details of how it works are here [1], but in essence it is a piece > >> of tracking javascript we install in our web pages. > >> > >> Seeing the results would require a Google account, and I suggest we > >> limit access to the data to ASF committers, since they are also the > only > >> ones that can see the website logs on the server machine. > >> > >> WDYT? Would it be useful to our website gurus? > >> > >> [1] http://www.google.com/analytics/ > >> > >> > >> Regards, > >> Tim > >> > > >
