joaquin@tid.es wrote:
After reading about Volodya's insertion of a GA tracker for Boost.Build docs, I wonder whether it'd make sense to add one of these to the boost.org website itself. Some of the data we could gather, like for instance the geographical distribution of visitors, can be very illuminating.
There are two problems at first sight with this:
* Whose the reports' associated Google account should be?
Daniel James :-) Seriously, to use GA to optimize anything, one has to have direct access to the reporting interface, and it's not like we have lots of folks working on the website.
* How to make the data public? This is not technically trivial, but maybe some volunteer would like to do the job of extracting the data via the Google Analytics Data Export API:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/make-your-google-analytics-data-public/
Since the data will be of limited use, it might be sufficient to provide monthly reports on key metrics only. - Volodya