[pydotorg-www] Analytics

[Ethan Schoonover]

My impression of Google Analytics has been very positive from both a
utility and privacy perspective.

See the recent opt-out announcement, for instance:
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2010/03/more-choice-for-users-browser-based-opt.html

I would strongly recommend exploring an option like GA before
installing yet a third party tracking system requiring
maintenance/upgrades (even if minor, in my experience small
maintenance becomes another bottleneck). GA's interface is generally
very easy to use as well.

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On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 09:28, Michael Foord <mfoord at python.org> wrote:
> On 25/04/2010 17:14, Paul Boddie wrote:
>>
>> On Sunday 25 April 2010 16:02:54 Michael Foord wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 25/04/2010 14:56, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:53:29PM +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S. Is there any web stats for pydotorg like browser/country/etc?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.python.org/webstats/ ; most other python.org web servers
>>>> also have /webstats/ subdirectories.
>>>>
>>>> Does Debian include other logfile analysis software that produces more
>>>> useful results?  We could certainly switch to a different package.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I like awstats - but it is not fundamentally very different from
>>> webalizer. (Just slightly prettier / more useful output in my opinion.)
>>>
>>
>> My experience, from having to install such software at work (albeit for an
>> FTP
>> site), was that The Webalizer was a lot more sane to install than AWStats,
>> documentation for the latter just being plain awful. It almost tempted me
>> to
>> write my own log analysis software in Python.
>>
>
> I've installed awstats a couple of times myself and it wasn't so hard. :-)
>
> Not that I haven't been tempted to write my own log analyser software in
> Python *too* though...
>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I'm not aware of any genuine privacy concerns raised by the use of
>>> google analytics. If anyone wants to prevent their browsing being
>>> recorded by google analytics (or other similar services) they will
>>> already block it or have switched off javascript altogether.
>>>
>>
>> For the EuroPython sites, I was very much against Google Analytics: not
>> only
>> does (or did) it seem to slow down the loading of sites, effectively
>> pausing
>> the loading of content,
>
> There are various standard ways of solving that problem, this one being the
> recommended:
>
> http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTracking.html
>
>> but the matter of analysis was obviously tied to
>> Google.
>
> I haven't seen a rational explanation for why google analytics is a privacy
> concern.
>
> All the best,
>
> Michael Foord
>
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