Matomo vs GA terminology

[nestorw]

[vantuyls]

Terms we need definitions and crosswalks for:

• Visitor
• User
• Session

[mcritchlow]

Here's some info from Google. Note things have changed between v3 and v4 of GA Reporting API, because of course they have..

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/dimsmets#view=detail&group=user&jump=ga_visitors

Metrics:

1. ga:users = The total number of users for the requested time period. Formerly knows as ga:visitors
2. ga:newUser = The number of sessions marked as a user's first sessions. Formerly knows as ga:newVisits

Edit: also here's a gist i wrote up with some sample queries https://gist.github.com/mcritchlow/0fc999de486182065b1d2a5402e33ecd note that i'm not querying against a hyrax app but our library public website. so yeah.

[vantuyls]

Visitor - An individual person who visits the repository - this is sometimes referred to as User

• Matomo: nb_unique_visitor
• Google: ga:users

Session - a repository usage event (e.g. a user visiting the repository and interacting with content in some way)

• Matomo: nb_visits
• Google: ga:sessions

[mcritchlow]

Ok, so if I'm understanding this correctly, we need to update our resource statistic table which currently is:

    create_table :resource_stats do |t|
      t.datetime :date, null: false
      t.integer :user_id
      t.integer :downloads
      t.integer :pageviews
      t.integer :unique_visitors
      t.integer :returning_visitors
      t.string :resource_id
      t.string :resource_type

      t.timestamps
    end
    add_index :resource_stats, :date
    add_index :resource_stats, [:date, :resource_id, :resource_type]

And it should be:

    create_table :resource_stats do |t|
      t.datetime :date, null: false
      t.integer :user_id
      t.integer :downloads
      t.integer :pageviews
      t.integer :visitors
      t.integer :sessions
      t.string :resource_id
      t.string :resource_type

      t.timestamps
    end
    add_index :resource_stats, :date
    add_index :resource_stats, [:date, :resource_id, :resource_type]

Is that right? If so, I'll setup a ticket and get a DB migration in place or update the existing one since it's not actually merged anywhere (yet)

[mcritchlow]

@nestorw :point_up: does that look right to you?

[mcritchlow]

For now I'm going to update the database migration for creating the table to align with what's above. if that turns out to be incorrect let's adjust as needed

[nestorw]

looks correct to me