Christian Grobmeier wrote on 11/13/20 9:17 AM: > Hello Whimsy developers, > > today I found this: > https://whimsy.apache.org/site/ > > Is it possible for me to add a few more checks? In example, I would like to > check if a site does contain Google Analytics, TagManager or Google Fonts. > There might be more to check. GA is a privacy related problem, so I thought > how I could check how many of our sites are using known, critical things like > GA. > > My question is, if you would be willing to accept code to perform those > checks and where would I add it?
Great idea! As Sam notes elsethread, the code is structured to separate out the various checks as much as possible from the crawling and the potential validation display of the data. In particular, be sure to carefully note the status of any new checks, especially if they are scanning best practices vs. strictly required website policies. We've had issues in the past with edge cases where some projects were worried they were "red", even though they otherwise met whatever policies were actually required. For example, while it's useful to know where Google Fonts is being used, it's not a policy to use (or not) that service. Likewise, if we have a specific policy forbidding Google Analytics, be sure to link to the policy in any code comments. -- - Shane Whimsy PMC The Apache Software Foundation
