[Monotone-devel] [offtopic] Google Analytics for monotone's website

[Thomas Keller]

Hi all!

I recently had some time to play with Google Analytics which is a free 
statistics service with a lot of cool features [0] - so I wonder if we 
want this for our web pages as well?

Since it is a remote service it cannot not take its information from the 
server logs, but uses a tiny Javascript snippet which needs to be 
embedded on each web page that should be tracked. In case we want to do 
that, it would certainly be useful to have some SSI similar technique 
setup server-side to automatically add this snippet to any text/html 
content.

There are two downsides, though: The first is that only HTML contents 
can be tracked, but not individually downloaded files, since Google only 
notices those contents from which the Javascript code is executed, so 
afaik its not possible to generate download statistics through that [1]. 
The other downside is that the statistics are not publically viewable by 
everybody unless he or she is added to the account either as 
"administator" (full access) or "user" (read-only). The user has to give 
an email for which a Google account is registered to one of the other 
administrators to be added.

Now I can probably set this thing up within a few, so its more a 
question now if people want this setup or not.

Thomas.

[0] http://www.google.com/analytics/features.html
[1] I think there are better ways to track these things anyways, f.e. 
for guitone I've created a little count script which takes a 
parametricized URL and therefor can be used to target individual referer 
linkage - the stats then look like this: 
http://guitone.thomaskeller.biz/g/stats

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