Re: Analytics on PHP.net

On 30 July 2014 08:55, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Why is nothing easy – thunderbird decided that 'enter' should send the > message I'm trying to edit so there are three copies unfinished > floating somewhere :( > > Not to worry, they all came to me, and not the list. > On 30/07/14 08:08, Mike Griffiths wrote: > > I guess there are a couple of options available to us: > > 1. Write something ourselves. I doubt this will ever come close to > being > > as detailed as we would like, and the amount of data we would need to > store > > in order to report on certain aspects makes this quite a monumental task. > Given the facilities provided by piwik, why not run a copy of that. We > don't need their commercial arm to host it, in fact it is easier to > monitor if you have a private copy. I'm still running my own port of an > earlier version because it does more than enough for me. > I've been in touch with Piwik, the short version is that their systems aren't built to handle a site as busy as php.net, so I'm not sure the self-hosted version would work either. > > > 2. Use Google Analytics, or something similar. Hannes voiced privacy > > concerns over using Google Analytics, which are concerns I don't > share, but > > it would be great to hear everyone's opinion on it. > All of my customers have anything related to Google disabled and we even > have to host our own copies of assets they host. They simply never > appear on Google Anayltics. > I've never had that issue. That said, I don't particularly care whether it's Google Analytics or some other analytics package so long as we get what we need from it. > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > -- > PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Mike Griffiths - Blog <http://mike-griffiths.co.uk> mgriffiths@gmail.com