Analytics Need to Be Gathered / Data-Driven Decision Making

[wbnns]

Hey Everybody! Hope this message finds all of you sitting somewhere in your respective corners of the world happy and doing well! :) The reason I want to open this up is because Bitcoin.org is more often than not the number one search result on all of the search engines for the keyword Bitcoin.

We are receiving thousands and thousands and thousands of visitors. We provide a plethora of useful content to these individuals so that they can participate within the economy and seek more information regarding what they are interested in across a multitude of various contexts.

In the next week or so, we will have successfully translated the entire site so that it is available to everyone in the world's 20 largest economies in their native languages. More languages continue to be translated as well.

More and more people are and will be coming to Bitcoin.org every day.

It is our job as contributors to continue to improve Bitcoin.org as a fervent epicenter of content that reaches it apex within the Bitcoin space. In order to do this we must make effective and efficient decisions that are data-driven, based on aggregated metrics each day, not intuition.

We can't efficiently manage what we don't measure.

Analytics provide us with cardinal insight into the most heavily interacted portions of the site, so that we can place our focus onto making them better and better. We have an opportunity to exponentially improve something that is already pretty damn awesome.

Let's be more awesome.

So, I propose we utilize Piwik. It is open source, free web analytics software. Worried about privacy? In January 2014, the Center for Data Privacy Protection in France (CNIL) recommended Piwik as the only analytics tool that can easily ensure full compliance with privacy regulations.

Let's all put our heads together on a vast amount of rich aggregated information we can glean.

Let's use our collective intelligence and make that which is great even greater!

Cheers to changing the world and making it a better place, one new Bitcoin adopter at a time. :)

[saivann]

FWIW, I like the idea to provide public stats as long as we don't risk leaking IP addresses and we don't weaken bitcoin.org servers security with dynamic content.

For the record, many people opposed to Google Analytics in the past. It is my understanding that the main reason for this disagreement wasn't the stats themselves, but allowing a third party (Google) to collect private data (IPs). By using our own software, we wouldn't have this problem.

[wbnns]

This project is kicking off today! ::breaks champagne bottle on bow of repo::

[saivann]

Update: I have just opened issue #605 on providing public stats.