Open arnounesco opened 1 year ago
The analytics solution must enable us to track data from now into the future. Arno - also option to store the data on our server ourselves. can ALSO use GA or another tool.
We need to track
Related: Matomo is a very popular analytics tracker, that is free if we host ourselves on IODE server. I think there is no harm in having both GA4 and Matomo running, and, with Matomo we will always have the past data locally (there is no 14-month rule etc).
We have to move away from GA if we want stats from all over the world. As far as I know GA will not work for Chinese and Iranian visits and might be a problem for Russian visits in the future. Matomo looks promising to me and is scalable if we would need more in the future.
We can investigate on it. Anyway some considerations from our side:
we highly discourage using 2 in-parallel setups: you're going to have massive headaches with mismatching metrics for litte to no added value
on-premise Matomo has some limitations on the custom reports available, that need to be purchased as add-on starting from €199/year https://matomo.org/pricing/ We are going to explore more in depth the granularity of the standard site search report included in the free tier and confirm if it satisfies OIH's needs
the estimated cost (given the historical traffic volumes to the OIH website) for BigQuery should be in the ballpark of less than €1 per month. There is also a $300 free credit for new Google Cloud Platform accounts that can be used https://cloud.google.com/bigquery https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/pricing
we want to inspect to what extent it's possible to leverage custom dimension to have the requested report granularity in the GA4 standard report interface, so not subjected to the 14-month data retention limit -> to do so we would like to mirror the current tracking in a test GA4 property and run some testing there
Hi all, here a first approach to define the events fired by React to send to Matomo information related to user actions
Category* | Action* | Name | Description | Notes |
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search | simple_search | $searchTerm|$region | "fired when a search page result is displayed, coming from a SIMPLE search; block on refresh (how???); block on pagination (how???)" | convert the "," character -if present- to "[COMMA]" |
search | advanced_search | $searchTerm|$region|$params | "fired when a search page result is displayed, coming from an ADVANCED search; block on refresh (how???); block on pagination (how???)" | convert the "," character -if present- to "[COMMA]" |
search | sorted_search | $searchTerm|$region|$typeOfSearch|$oldSortingCriterion|$newSortingCriterion|$params | fired when a "sorting" dropdown is used to change to a different sorting criterion | "convert the "","" character -if present- to ""[COMMA]""; $typeOfSearch = simple OR advanced OR refined" |
search | refined_search | $searchTerm|$region|$typeOfSearch|$oldParams|$newParams | "fired when a search page result is displayed, coming from a previous search, AFTER changing the applied facets or applying new ones; block on refresh (how???)" | "convert the "","" character -if present- to ""[COMMA]""; $typeOfSearch = simple OR advanced OR refined" |
search | change_result_page | $searchTerm|$region|$typeOfSearch|$oldPageNumber|$newPageNumber | "fired when a search page result is displayed, coming from a pagination click event block the standard simple_search or advanced_search event (how???); block on refresh (how???)" | "convert the "","" character -if present- to ""[COMMA]""; $typeOfSearch = simple OR advanced OR refined" |
click | click_on_result | $destination_URL|$result_position|$current_page_number|$total_pages|$querystring_with_search_and_facets | fired when the title of a result item in the search result page is clicked | convert the "," character -if present- to "[COMMA]" |
click | click_on_jsonld | $destination_URL|$result_position|$current_page_number|$total_pages|$querystring_with_search_and_facets | fired when the jsonld button of a result item in the search result page is clicked | convert the "," character -if present- to "[COMMA]" |
misc | page_refresh | $currentUrl | fired on page refresh (how???) | convert the "," character -if present- to "[COMMA]" |
@arnounesco we are ready to start the development of the above approach. Please give your feedback if you think adjustments are needed.
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