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Performance / Analyitics #43

Closed amcguire62 closed 10 years ago

amcguire62 commented 10 years ago

Can we (via google analytics) capture that activity between ckan and cps (either as downloads or as calls so that if we have a performance issue we can identify / correlate this to performance of the platform #Luis you may already be planning to catch this.

davidmegginson commented 10 years ago

This isn't the only option, but one trick with Analytics is adding a bit of Javascript to an outbound link; then Analytics can count all clicks on that link, even if they lead outside the domain:

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1136920?hl=en

We'd have two major steps to implement this:

  1. @luiscape sets up our Analytics account to track the outbound click events.
  2. Someone on the CKAN team makes a very small edit in the template files to add the Javascript to the outbound link element (HTML a).
luiscape commented 10 years ago

@davidmegginson Analytics tracking could be the same used in our website.

It seems that the folks at OKFN have developed a neat CKAN extension to do this: http://docs.ckan.org/en/tracking-fixes/tracking.html

Will it be worth exploring it?

davidmegginson commented 10 years ago

Definitely. Do you have a sandbox where you could try it out? If not, we could try it at ckan.megginson.com (I'm happy to let you add the site to your analytics account).

Cheers, David

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Luis Capelo notifications@github.comwrote:

@davidmegginson https://github.com/davidmegginson Analytics tracking could be the same used in our website.

It seems that the folks at OKFN have developed a neat CKAN extension to do this: http://docs.ckan.org/en/tracking-fixes/tracking.html

Will it be worth exploring it?

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luiscape commented 10 years ago

@davidmegginson If you don't mind, let's give it a try on your sandbox instance. I've just sent you an email with the Google Analytics tracking number and also have given you admin access to our GA account. (Serban is also an admin.) Please change anything as you need.

Let me know if you need anything else.

luiscape commented 10 years ago

@all -- Should I reassign this? What are the next steps to close this issue?

davidmegginson commented 10 years ago

Hi, @luiscape — I think it might be most useful if the CKAN devs try this in one of their sandboxes, then in test.data.hdx.rwlabs.org — what do you think, @cjhendrix? If you'd prefer that I do it in ckan.megginson.com first, I can free up an hour to try it out.

luiscape commented 10 years ago

@davidmegginson I'll leave that decision to @cjhendrix -- what do you think CJ?

cjhendrix commented 10 years ago

Since this seems to be mostly a ckan issue, I'm going to close this one and we'll continue the discussion here: https://github.com/OCHA-DAP/hdx-ckan/issues/196