There is a real need to monitor or collect related statistics of traffic to www.riskprofiler.ca and associated downloads to track usage, popularity and performance, etc. of our beloved project.
TODOs
[ ] Check Amazon CloudFront usage for RiskProfiler web pages
[ ] GitHub release assets download stats
[ ] GitHub repo access stats
[ ] Possibility of adding Google Analytics to GitHub Pages as GitHub does not provide server-side stats on them.
[ ] Check Amazon CloudFront usage for vector map tiles.
[ ] Collect the above data daily and provide charts and tables for easy viewing and tracking over time.
Background Information
Malaika (@malaikau) thoughtfully asked:
Do you know if we can monitor traffic or downloads from riskprofiler.ca?
To which I replied:
Great question! This is a topic that Joost brought over a year ago, quite some time before the RiskProfiler launch, for GitHub Pages and for the downloads of GitHub release assets (e.g. GeoPackage files.)
Google Analytics was briefly considered and tried out, though there were privacy concerns that we probably stopped using it altogether. (My memory is a bit vague in this area; I'll go check.)
As for downloads, GitHub has an API that allows us to query how many times a file (release asset) was downloaded. We tested that it does work, but I failed to follow up to do a regular API poll to keep track of that statistics. I think this would be a fun side project this year. (should be relatively simple and won't take too much time)
As for access to the web pages on RiskProfiler.ca, no Google Analytics is in place, though Arash set RiskProfiler up to be served from Amazon CloudFront (caching, content delivery network) which apparently has some sort of traffic monitoring built in: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/reporting/
I'll go explore to see if that's indeed the case and share some charts with you if available.
And thank you so much for bringing this up! (This is something that I should have recalled to do and yet escaped my mind completely. My bad!) I'll start exploring an automated collection of all relevant site visits and downloads statistics/metrics on a regular basis (daily, monthly, etc.) and have them available in one place for easy viewing.
And Malaika kindly replied:
Thank you! That would be great. And no hurry, but it will help us consider what and how we measure things...
There is a real need to monitor or collect related statistics of traffic to www.riskprofiler.ca and associated downloads to track usage, popularity and performance, etc. of our beloved project.
TODOs
Background Information
Malaika (@malaikau) thoughtfully asked:
To which I replied:
And Malaika kindly replied: