[ckan-dev] tracking users

Mon Aug 20 16:22:39 UTC 2012

On 20 August 2012 17:10, David Read <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com> wrote:

> Toby,
>
> This is great, many thanks. The key to it all is in your last sentence
> - about writing the internal tracking code, so that you can avoid
> sending data to Google.
>
> Here's my summary:
>
> * Core CKAN can track page views and downloads into the tracking_raw table
> * ckanext-googleanalytics can use Google Analytics instead to track
> similar info, but in the resource_stats and package_stats tables
> * You can periodically run paster commands that loads a summary of
> either data into the tracking_summary tables, which is then read by
> the templates to show number of downloads.
>
>
That's a fair summary

David
>
> On 20 August 2012 12:30, Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> > -----------------------------------
> > 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
> > -----------------------
> >
> > 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
> > -------
> >
> > 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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