[SOLR-15189] Tracking downloads on new Solr site

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Assignee: Alexandre Rafalovitch
• Reporter: Jan Høydahl
• Created: 24/Feb/21 10:14
• Updated: 21/Dec/21 17:47
• Resolved: 21/Dec/21 17:47

Description

On lucene.apache.org we use Google Analytics tracking

GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TRACKING_ID = 'UA-94576-12'

I think the reason was so that we could estimate downloads from mirrors, by counting number of clicks on the links from download pages. But are anyone ever looking at or publishing those numbers?

The ASF wants projects to stop using 3rd party tracking of users and instead ask INFRA for aggregated stats for the page. WDYT? Should we

1. Remove trackers from both sites and rely on stats from infra
2. Continue using Google analytics, but have someone actually publish numbers from it every month?
3. Use some other way of counting downloads?

What do we get without a tracker?

INFRA provides anonymous page view stats here https://uls.apache.org/exports/lucene.apache.org.yaml which gives some insight. But not downloads specifically. We see 12k visits to Solr downloads page last months, but we don't know how many of those clicked...

Sheet3:
  Name: Most visited pages, past month
  Values:
    /solr/index.html: 33604
    /index.html: 27588
    /solr/downloads.html: 12118
    /core/2_9_4/queryparsersyntax.html: 11135
    /core/index.html: 10353
    /solr/guide/solr-tutorial.html: 9734
    /solr/resources.html: 8014
    /solr/features.html: 7046
    /solr/guide/8_8/solr-tutorial.html: 6099
    /solr/news.html: 5843
    /solr/guide/6_6/the-standard-query-parser.html: 5216
    /solr/guide/index.html: 4430
    /solr/guide/6_6/common-query-parameters.html: 4379
    /core/downloads.html: 3644

There's an interesting section at the bottom of that YAML page, wonder if it could be enabled in some way

Sheet6:
  Name: Downloads, past month
  Values: {}

Issue Links

• relates to: LUCENE-9858 Remove Google Analytics from Lucene site
• relates to: SOLR-15275 Remove Google Analytics from Solr site
• mentioned in: Page Loading...