Track usage

[groupsky]

Some form of analytics (like google analytics provides for websites) to track usage and version distributions would be helpful. Not sure how the privacy should be approached - maybe a opt-on/opt-out setting.

[jerone]

I've seen this in other packages too and would like to have it. Do you know what needs to be done to get this implemented?

[groupsky]

I can examine the other packages. Can you point to some where you saw that?

[jerone]

Open up your config.cson and look for packages that have the _analyticsUserId property:

• atom-beautify
• preview

[jerone]

Interesting: https://github.com/atom/metrics

[groupsky]

It seems that both packages (atom-beautify and preview) are using analytics-node which is backed by Segment to report data to Google Analytics.

The actual code to track and report is pretty strightforward:

• atom-beautify
• preview

[jerone]

So I thought I give this a try: https://github.com/jerone/atom-sync-settings/tree/features/tracking

I've installed analytics-node (npm install --save analytics-node) and setup an account on Segment with GA activated.

I'm seeing some data in Segment:

But I'm struggling to get this visible in GA, my knowledge about GA is too limited I noticed.

[groupsky]

I managed to see it in GA just by replacing the segments key with my own. In GA you usually see the stats from previous month excluding the current day. In live view you can see for events from the tracking. One thing to note - I had to use the long write key, instead of the short api key (the latter says is for enterprise users - no idea what that is).

A working example with some additional features can be seen at my branch

[jerone]

Scanned trough your code; your are not using Segment anymore?

[groupsky]

I'm using it, just extracted the tracking into separate class.