[ckan-dev] tracking users

[Toby Dacre]

Toby

On 20 August 2012 11:58, David Read <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com> wrote:

> I note that CKAN has some code that tracks user as, as well as some
> new developments in the Google Analytics extension. I've not looked
> too closely, but can someone explain why we have both and what
> different things are tracked on each system?
>
> Hi David,

Essentially the differences are

ckanext-googleanalytics
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this uses ga to track visitors to the site by using ga code as supplied by
google - the extension must be installed/configured

for internal tracking use branch enhancement-2251-tracking
stats updated via `paster loadanalytics internal` first time will be slow
as it will ty to load ~ last 2 years tracking data by day

* lots of stuff is tracked

internal tracking
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this is enabled by setting ckan.tracking_enabled = true in the .ini
this will then make a request to ckan for each page visited with the url
visited - it also track click of resource 'download' similar to ga
these are logged in ckan

stats are updated via `paster tracking -c xx.ini`

* very limited tracking enough to roughly tell a vistor is unique - IP,
user-agent, username if logged in  plus resource/url

Both
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If internal tracking data is processed via the relevant paster command
Note: a reindex is also needed `paster search-index rebuild -r`
the package/resource dicts will now contain 'tracking_summary' of {'total':
<num>, 'recent': <num>} which can be used on pages


We're upping what we track in DGU and will make all the usage stats
> transparent, so we're just looking at the best way to do this.
>


Depends what you want ga is much richer info but goggle have all your data



> David
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