Re: Remove Google Analytics from project website

2018-11-05 Thread Keith Turner
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:57 PM Mike Walch 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 metr

Re: Remove Google Analytics from project website

2018-11-05 Thread Mike Walch
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 Analy

Re: Remove Google Analytics from project website

2018-11-05 Thread Christopher
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 9:48 AM Sean Busbey 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. We don't need an answer to e

Re: Remove Google Analytics from project website

2018-11-05 Thread Sean Busbey
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 we

Re: Remove Google Analytics from project website

2018-11-02 Thread Christopher
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/1

Remove Google Analytics from project website

2018-11-02 Thread Mike Walch
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.