Yuri Dolgov wrote: > 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?
Hello Yuri, let's just wait a bit longer to see if anyone objects to the idea first. Regards, Tim > 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 >>>> >
