Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP.net analytics

2024-11-13 Thread John Coggeshall
> As the person that will end up having to maintain this, I wasn't aware > that https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo-php-tracker is pretty much the > same as the JS tracker. And as it does HTTPS requests from the PHP > application to Matomo, instead of a JS tracker, this seems like a > better solut

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP.net analytics

2024-11-13 Thread Gina P. Banyard
On Wednesday, 13 November 2024 at 19:06, Jonathan Vollebregt wrote: > On 11/11/24 8:11 PM, Larry Garfield wrote: > > > Metrics that go into a black box with a 3rd party are bad. That's not what > > is being proposed. > > > From my perspective it's still minified (obfuscated) code going into

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP.net analytics

2024-11-13 Thread Larry Garfield
On Wed, Nov 13, 2024, at 1:06 PM, Jonathan Vollebregt wrote: > On 11/11/24 8:11 PM, Larry Garfield wrote: >> Metrics that go into a black box with a 3rd party are bad. That's not what >> is being proposed. > > From my perspective it's still minified (obfuscated) code going into a > black box. J

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP.net analytics

2024-11-13 Thread Jonathan Vollebregt
On 11/11/24 8:11 PM, Larry Garfield wrote: Metrics that go into a black box with a 3rd party are bad. That's not what is being proposed. From my perspective it's still minified (obfuscated) code going into a black box. Just because you own the box doesn't make it any more transparent to me.

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP.net analytics

2024-11-11 Thread Larry Garfield
On Tue, Nov 5, 2024, at 3:46 PM, Jonathan Vollebregt wrote: > For the first there's a user agent (Again, matomo-php-tracker) as well > as media queries for transparent tracking with or CSS The browser user-agent is widely recognized as basically useless in the vast majority of cases. Most bro

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP.net analytics

2024-11-07 Thread Derick Rethans
On Sat, 2 Nov 2024, Jonathan Vollebregt wrote: > On 11/2/24 12:10 AM, Bob Weinand wrote: > > What percentage of users get to the docs through direct links vs the > > home page > > > > That's something you can generally infer from server logs - was the > > home page accessed from that IP right b

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP.net analytics

2024-11-07 Thread Derick Rethans
On Sat, 2 Nov 2024, Bob Weinand wrote: > On 1.11.2024 22:41:29, Larry Garfield wrote: > > In a similar vein to approving the use of software, Roman Pronskiy > > asked for my help putting together an RFC on collecting analytics > > for PHP.net. > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/phpnet-analytics

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP.net analytics

2024-11-05 Thread Jonathan Vollebregt
On 11/5/24 6:29 PM, Larry Garfield wrote: Overall I feel like the signal we can get from using a JS tracker specifically is comparatively low to the point it's not actually worth it. Some more things a client-side tracker could do that logs cannot: * How many people are accessing the site from

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP.net analytics

2024-11-05 Thread Larry Garfield
On Fri, Nov 1, 2024, at 6:10 PM, Bob Weinand wrote: > On 1.11.2024 22:41:29, Larry Garfield wrote: >> In a similar vein to approving the use of software, Roman Pronskiy asked for >> my help putting together an RFC on collecting analytics for PHP.net. >> >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/phpnet-analytics

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP.net analytics

2024-11-02 Thread Rob Landers
On Sat, Nov 2, 2024, at 00:54, Jonathan Vollebregt wrote: > On 11/2/24 12:10 AM, Bob Weinand wrote: > > What percentage of users get to the docs through direct links vs > > the home page > > > > That's something you can generally infer from server logs - was the home > > page accessed from

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP.net analytics

2024-11-01 Thread Jonathan Vollebregt
On 11/2/24 12:10 AM, Bob Weinand wrote:     What percentage of users get to the docs through direct links vs the home page That's something you can generally infer from server logs - was the home page accessed from that IP right before another page was opened? It's not as accurate, but for a

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP.net analytics

2024-11-01 Thread Bob Weinand
On 1.11.2024 22:41:29, Larry Garfield wrote: In a similar vein to approving the use of software, Roman Pronskiy asked for my help putting together an RFC on collecting analytics for PHP.net. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/phpnet-analytics Of particular note: * This is self-hosted, first-party only.

[PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP.net analytics

2024-11-01 Thread Larry Garfield
In a similar vein to approving the use of software, Roman Pronskiy asked for my help putting together an RFC on collecting analytics for PHP.net. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/phpnet-analytics Of particular note: * This is self-hosted, first-party only. No third parties get data, so no third parti