Website Analytics (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] Website php.net updates and coordination)

On Wed, 10 Jul 2024, Roman Pronskiy wrote: > 2. Analytics > It is hard to make any decisions without having a reliable source of > stats and data. With more than 17,000 pages, updating all of them is > impractical. Analytics, among other things, will help us prioritize > updates based on page importance. Using a self-hosted Matomo instance > seems a viable option for this. Derick Rethans will follow up with > more details. I have looked at a few different solutions, and the most reasonsable seems to self-host a Mamato (formerly Piwik) instance. This means no analytics data will get send to third parties. I have set up this instance already (https://analytics.php.net, SSL certificate not active yet) and also briefly experimented with it. In order to collect data, we will need to add the following snippet to php-web: https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/aef3309d2508b1e1ca0db5c50c829dfdfa7ee24f By default, nobody (besides me and Roman) would be able to view the analytics either, but I am open to opening this up for other interested members of the PHP development team. I will leave it to Roman to make the case of what sort of information he would like to obtain, and why. Opinions? cheers, Derick