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Alexandre Rafalovitch commented on SOLR-15189:
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We don't have enough data yet for super deep insights, but it is already
interesting. We have a dual-linked property configured (classic and GA4), I
jumped around a bit trying to understand both.
A couple of things that popped out:
# 93% of our users are on desktop. That's higher than normal, but perhaps
reflects that we are delivering software, not service as such
# We get about 3x number of users on work days than on weekends. So, this
seems to correspond to work-time interest.
# Home page is most popular which is usual; the second most popular (half of
that) is downloads (good); everything else drops off half again or worse.
# The guide page is only 5% of visits; I find that under-promoted, though this
does not count actual reference guide pages usage (no GA there)
# Landing (first) page is home page page for 67% and downloads 15%, the rest
are much less and don't get much (first page) attention
# Half of the traffic arrives from Organic Search (and that's basically all
Google); 30% is direct which may be copy/pastes, PDF links, etc; interestingly
we get a tiny (but more than bing) traffic from the links on localhost:8983
(from our Admin UI links clearly); we don't have a partner promoting Solr so
much that they are driving noticeable traffic to us.
# Most of the social traffic (70%) is from Twitter, our presence on Hacker
News, Reddit and even Stack Overflow is not effective
# Most visitors are from USA, then China, India, and Germany and then a heavy
drop-off; I would be curious who
# 83% of users are marked as new, though this may be issue of time and of
cookie-clearing technologies
Couple of notes, looking for feedback/+-1
* I really really wish we would wire Reference Guide for analytics, even for
30 days or so - I think (hope) that may change a lot of above numbers and -
even more importantly - would give us some visibility into user flow through
the information
* Search keywords that lead to the site are mostly in Search Console (as well
as errors) - but it failed to validate through GA4 tag, we can do by uploading
a file to the site - I recommend doing it as - again - this is about getting
access to the information Google already collects (regardless of GA actually)
* In GA4, I saw file_download event and it even had 'filename' attribute, but
it would only show that attribute for last 30 minutes. I could not figure out
how it was setup and/or how to see the values of filename attribute over longer
period of time; if there is any information on whether/how that was setup, it
would be good to know.
> Tracking downloads on new Solr site
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>
> Key: SOLR-15189
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-15189
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Reporter: Jan Høydahl
> Assignee: Alexandre Rafalovitch
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: Analytics All Web Site Data All Traffic
> 20210219-20210320.pdf, Analytics All Web Site Data Pages 20210219-20210320.pdf
>
>
> On lucene.apache.org we use Google Analytics tracking
> {quote}GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TRACKING_ID = 'UA-94576-12'
> {quote}
> I think the reason was so that we could estimate downloads from mirrors, by
> counting number of clicks on the links from download pages. But are anyone
> ever looking at or publishing those numbers?
> The ASF wants projects to stop using 3rd party tracking of users and instead
> ask INFRA for aggregated stats for the page. WDYT? Should we
> # Remove trackers from both sites and rely on stats from infra
> # Continue using Google analytics, but have someone actually publish numbers
> from it every month?
> # Use some other way of counting downloads?
> h2. What do we get without a tracker?
> INFRA provides anonymous page view stats here
> [https://uls.apache.org/exports/lucene.apache.org.yaml] which gives some
> insight. But not downloads specifically. We see 12k visits to Solr downloads
> page last months, but we don't know how many of those clicked...
> {code:java}
> Sheet3:
> Name: Most visited pages, past month
> Values:
> /solr/index.html: 33604
> /index.html: 27588
> /solr/downloads.html: 12118
> /core/2_9_4/queryparsersyntax.html: 11135
> /core/index.html: 10353
> /solr/guide/solr-tutorial.html: 9734
> /solr/resources.html: 8014
> /solr/features.html: 7046
> /solr/guide/8_8/solr-tutorial.html: 6099
> /solr/news.html: 5843
> /solr/guide/6_6/the-standard-query-parser.html: 5216
> /solr/guide/index.html: 4430
> /solr/guide/6_6/common-query-parameters.html: 4379
> /core/downloads.html: 3644
> {code}
> There's an interesting section at the bottom of that YAML page, wonder if it
> could be enabled in some way
> {code}
> Sheet6:
> Name: Downloads, past month
> Values: {}
> {code}
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