Analytics

[psineur]

We don't want to measure everything or dig deep into heatmaps, etc.
But IMO we want the number of forum views / unique visitors/ DAU/MAU from Day One.

I think this could be pretty easily done with Google Analytics and TrackingID coming from Config/Env.

For actual implementation - we can just modify templates for posts and forums and provide forum name / submission url as a param to event / page-view.

GA Debug extension for chrome can be of great help. Should be moderately easy task for someone familiar with gtag.

[psineur]

This will be upforgrabs for at least few days - this task is great opportunity even for students / almost complete noobs to help.
Mention @psineur for codereview.

If no one picks this up - I will take it after main devops/organization issues are worked on and pretty much almost before MVP release.

[psineur]

@TKsM151 started this in #24

We still need to needle-through the 'ga-1234-id' string from env->app->twig.

P.S. You can mention issues in commits with #24 as well - then they will appear in the log of the issue.
Something like

 git commit -m "Finish google analytics. Closes #17" 

will appear here and close the issue when merged.

[zoidbergjesus]

Happy to help out with this one. Analytics/Data Engineering in my wheelhouse

[psineur]

therealgd/templates/_includes/site_tracking.html.twig

Line 8 in 0a68211

gtag('config', 'UA-116338609-1');

this is not implemented yet fully - we need to pass tracking from config/env.

@zoidbergjesus you're on it.
Please accept org invite on https://github.com/orgs/TheRealGD and assign yourself to this issue.
Thank You!

[TKsM151]

also, PM me in discord some Gmail addresses to add to the analytics platform

[DEVxALMIGHTY]

I'm having a look around @ Google Analytics now - I'm blown away. Soo much valuable data here ... well, there will be once we actually get some real users.

[DEVxALMIGHTY]

Does this require any wiring on our end? Or does GA handle everything ?

[TKsM151]

Unaversal tags work as is with the basic tag.

There is more advanced shut we can do like gtm and custom events but that's future shut and would require some input from marketing types on where and how to target.

[TKsM151]

Sorry my spelling sucks

[TKsM151]

Also, server side stats you'd have to refer to one of the backend gus as to whats best, they can log and dump images to a page I think.

[psineur]

I think our current gtag is good enough for v1.

[psineur]

#165 for future non-MVP analytics