I block any analytics I can find. I am with you on the overall positioning. And yes, the absolute numbers lie.
At the same time, we can get a lot of relative numbers and trends that are valuable in other ways. For example: 1) Are the social media announcements of new releases drive people to download Solr? 2) Which Ref Guide pages (if we had GA there) are most popular and why can't we convince users to use the latest version instead of 6.6 (looking at referrals). My specific peeve is that I think URPs page should be a lot more visible, I would love to see if my assumptions are true by seeing if people discover that page, relative to other pages. 3) What is the page flow on the website? Are there any pages that are complete invisible because of how we linked to them? Are there super popular pages that are completely out of date? 4) Do we have increase or decrease in traffic matching specific events 5) Is there a specific partner/agency site that is driving a lot of attention to Solr; can we replicate that with others? 6) Do we even count downloads in GA? Because GA is for HTML pages only by default 7) If any of this is valuable, but we want to pull out GA anyway, this would help to know what tracking information we would like from Apache Infra? In general, these kinds of questions are the domain of Developer Relationships role. Lucene/Solr project does not have one as such, which may explain why not many people understand the values of modern analytics solutions. I am offering my time to make the value of analytics concrete, so we are making the next decision based on reality rather than our collective imagination of what analytics actually does or does not. Regards, Alex. On Wed., Mar. 3, 2021, 8:40 a.m. Robert Muir, <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 8:35 AM Michael Sokolov <msoko...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Before you look, should we have a betting pool on the number of >> downloads/day? I will arrange for a bottle of some excellent liquid to >> be sent to the closest guess at the number of redirects to the mirror >> sites, as determined by Alexandre. Also, has it been increasing over >> the last year? Finally, if we can predict these trends using activity >> on the main apache site, maybe we don't need to track independently. >> > > Why do we even care? > > How many users are downloading lucene tgz from the site versus using an > artifact in maven repositories (via maven, gradle, etc)? How many users are > downloading solr tgz from the site versus using solr official image from > docker hub? > > I'm just asking these questions to try to understand the need for the > google tracking. > >
