On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:57 PM Mike Walch <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Personally I am in favor of removing it. I am also ok with keeping it around if Sean finds it useful. > > 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. > > > > >
