Google Analytics is great at measuring website visitors but I think it's hard to determine what percentage of visitors are actually using Accumulo. Most website visitors only want to learn what the project does. I don't find visitor metrics that useful.
I would be in favor of keeping Google Analytics if we were doing community building via social media, developer websites, etc and wanted to measure how much traffic the website gets from these efforts. However, I don't think anyone is doing this and Google Analytics or something similar can always be added back if someone wants to do this. While I am in favor of removing it, I am OK keeping it if others find it useful and the ASF doesn't recommend its removal. I'll keep the pull request open until there is some consensus. On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 9:48 AM Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > IIRC google analytics was one of the few ways Josh and I were able to look > at the size of the "lurker population" for the project back when we tried > to get a grasp on how the community was doing back in 2014. > > What will we do as an alternative for checking interest in the project > expressed as website visits? When one of us wants to redesign or optimize > parts of the website how will we know what works and what doesn't? > > I think GDPR is also a good reason to keep the existing analytics install. > Any alternative we come up with will have to comply and I'm pretty sure the > Google Analytics team is in a better position to do that then the Accumulo > community is. > > On 2018/11/02 20:54:59, Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think we should remove it. Given greater user concern over privacy > > lately (with things like GDPR), and the fact that it we don't really > > *need* the info (does anybody check the reports regularly?), I'd > > prefer to just remove it. Infra was also discussing this: > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1604a4cb92120eb5daab35aeaa9dda9aee461f8f644ab58ff0bc891a@%3Cusers.infra.apache.org%3E > > and there seemed to be some wider community consensus in that thread > > that we probably just shouldn't do it. > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 3:25 PM Mike Walch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I created a pull request to remove Google Analytics tracking from the > > > project website (https://accumulo.apache.org): > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/accumulo-website/pull/128 > > > > > > If you think Google Analytics should remain, please reply to this > email or > > > comment on the pull request. > > >
