Re: Analytics on PHP.net

On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Mike Griffiths wrote: > I would like to broach the subject of introducing some sort of > analytics package, such as Google Analytics, to the PHP.net website > and its sister sites. > > I personally believe this would be of huge benefit to lots of us, as > currently there is little to no way (that I'm aware of) of viewing > useful statistics and metrics on our visitors. > > Hannes and I spoke about this last night, and he is against the idea > of using a third party package to do this, and would rather write > something. I agree with Hannes, the 3rd party stuff is like a number one annoyance visiting sites, that also slows things down. Honestly, I really don't care where people come from and how long they stay. Finding out which pages people visit we can easily find out from the web logs. > 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. I definitely share those concerns. cheers, Derick