Find out if we need to track views at all, or just clicks

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New Tab page: content server and recommendation service

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Find out if we need to track views at all, or just clicks #13

Closed tofumatt closed 12 years ago

tofumatt commented 12 years ago

Hey @fwenzel and @zalun -- we should find out if we need to track views at all for metric or just clicks. Who shall we ask?

Mardak commented 12 years ago

If the page is cached in appcache, would you be tracking through the client code? I suppose even with appcache, there would be a manifest ping to see if there's updates, but we'll need to check the user data privacy about this as well.

anuragphadke commented 12 years ago

@tofumatt
The total # of new tab views is going to be extremely large (http://blog.mozilla.org/metrics/2011/08/03/test-pilot-new-tab-study-results/), we should track a percentage of those views, maybe 1% for now, and see how things scale.

We should track all clicks.

tofumatt commented 12 years ago

@anuragphadke Yeah, the plan is certainly to track all clicks. Tracking a percentage of views works for me. Thanks for that info. Seems like tracking all views is gonna be a bit overkill.