Re: [boost] [website] adding Google analytics reports to boost.org

Subject: Re: [boost] [website] adding Google analytics reports to boost.org
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-08 10:15:36

on Mon Jun 08 2009, joaquin-AT-tid.es wrote:

> After reading about Volodya's insertion of a GA tracker
> for Boost.Build docs, I wonder whether it'd make sense
> to add one of these to the boost.org website itself.
> Some of the data we could gather, like for instance the
> geographical distribution of visitors, can be very
> illuminating.
>
> There are two problems at first sight with this:
>
> * Whose the reports' associated Google account should
> be?
> * How to make the data public? This is not technically
> trivial, but maybe some volunteer would like to do the
> job of extracting the data via the Google Analytics Data
> Export API:
>
> http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/make-your-google-analytics-data-public/

Is there a rule against sharing an account?

One thing we _could_ consider is getting the SoftwareConservancy to set
up http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/education/new for Boost.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com