Closed hughmcguire closed 3 years ago
Good ideas, Hugh. We've thought about a closer integration with Fathom: https://usefathom.com/ in the past & want to revisit this soon (see convos in internal Slack & past product meeting agendas).
We'll be adding Koko Analytics to our hosted networks in the near future, which will provide a dashboard with basic page view information: https://www.kokoanalytics.com/wp/wp-admin/index.php?page=koko-analytics#/. Open source users may also want to consider using it or a similar solution if they're interested in this functionality.
Feature Description
Have a native analytics dashboard (for each book, and for the network) that tracks reader / usage activity, including:
Bonus if we can track this across all cloned versions of a book, and report the data on the Directory.
Feature Use Case
For authors: -- it is very gratifying for OER and other creators to see how their books are being used. This should be information creators have easy access to.
For Higher Ed administrators: -- Seeing reach/spread of a book helps administrators/funders define the return on investment on publishing projects, and helps institutions see the value (prestige/visibility, student savings etc) of each project and Pressbooks in general.
Other Notes
While we enable Google Analytics (which for Networks is only visible to the network manager), this really could/should be a native feature of Pressbooks. There are existing stats packages (such as matomo.org) that we could consider.