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codeforboston / finda

Generic "find-a" app for geographic datasets
http://codeforboston.github.io/finda/
MIT License
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hook up (Google?) analytics #77

Closed paulswartz closed 10 years ago

paulswartz commented 10 years ago

It would be nice to track who's using Finda, what browser/OS they're using, and what they do with the app (do they search for addresses? Do they filter? How many features do they look at.

We should hook up some kind of analytics so that we can get some of this data, at least by default. Probably it should be configurable, so privacy-conscious groups can disable it.

davidlago commented 10 years ago

Does Code for Boston have a Google Analytics account? If not, I can create one and add the hooks to finda's index.

ohnorobo commented 10 years ago

If we have one @WheresHJ would know.

WheresHJ commented 10 years ago

We do. Let's hook it up on Tuesday - and we definitely need to put in a way out.

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ohnorobo commented 10 years ago

One thing to keep in mind. This is eventually going to be split into two repos. The 'upstream' repository that people fork to start their own websites (which will keep thus url), and a dedicated site for the lgbtq data. We definitely don't want to have our personal google analytics set up in the first one. That might be a long way off though, and it's a pretty easy thing to remove when the time comes.

paulswartz commented 10 years ago

@beechnut says that we can use multiple Google tokens. By default, we should use both a user-specified token and the @codeforboston token, so that we can see who's using Finda.

beechnut commented 10 years ago

There could be a field in config.json like private: false, if set to true would not include our Google Analytics snippet.