[Design] SotM11: BoF meeting
Michal Migurski
mike at stamen.com
Thu Sep 15 19:00:39 BST 2011
On Sep 15, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 15/09/11 06:53, Michal Migurski wrote:
>
>> Tom, what do you think about something a bit more ghetto? Most analytics packages are front-ends to big, dumb log files (basically) and the kinds of metrics I'm imagining might not be captured by a standard collection of server metrics.
>>
>> The dream log file I have in mind would have five columns: tracking cookie, timestamp, OSM username (if any), URL path, and a message with some detail like "searched map", and it would be written by some ajaxy-javascript thing that would watch people's actions on the site, seeing things invisible to HTTP logs.
>>
>> A few metrics I've got in mind that can help us evaluate whether a site design helped after the fact are:
>> - time on site, from page to page (more is better)
>> - frequency and number of repeat visits (more is better)
>> - follow-on signups (more is better)
>> - interactions with the slippy map (where do they pan/zoom to?)
>> - search terms typed into the box (what kinds of things do they look for?)
>>
>> Tom, would it be interesting to you to help instrument the site in this way, in a hacked-up way at first?
>
> That sounds like far more work than installing piwik to be honest.
Sure, but does piwik actually give us the numbers we'll want? I looked at it and saw lots of traditional server metrics, but had a hard time seeing what they offered in terms of OSM-specific application and user metrics.
I looked here:
http://piwik.org/docs/piwik-tour/
-mike.
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