I am generally impressed with Google tools, but I am also in the
privacy freak camp. Still I know that the battle for online (or real
world) privacy is lost and this or that small concession is benign by
itself and doesn't change much in the big picture. So my vote is +0,
meaning I won't actively object it and won't pretend that I don't
care to read the generated reports :-).
Andrus
On May 30, 2007, at 3:04 AM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> The recent conversation on Infra about Google Analytics for Apache
> projects is interesting. I should have thought of it earlier since
> I've been using their services for a whole bunch of our customers.
> It produces really useful reports.
>
> Would anyone object if I added this service to the Cayenne site? It
> involves one piece of javascript which causes an extra fetch from a
> Google server on every page load. I've not noticed any speed
> degradation in even our busiest sites and the personal info shared
> with Google is just the typical ones: which page, what IP, is Flash/
> Java/etc installed. Nothing to identify individual people beyond
> their IP address which is in the Apache logs anyway.
>
> The plus side is that it gives us a better idea of which
> documentation pages are most used, how long people spend looking
> through the site, where they start looking from (do they all start
> on the front page), etc. These things can help tell us how to
> improve the site and the profile of Cayenne.
>
> I'd start by giving all committers access to the reports, but they
> can also be periodically (eg monthly) emailed to one of the lists
> if we like.
>
> Cheers
> Ari
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