Why Google Analytics and Fonts?

[ghost]

Would you be willing to remove this Google Analytics and Fonts 'functionality' from this website? There are better alternatives if you must keep tabs on users' activity.

Some reputable alternatives can be seen here: https://switching.software/replace/google-analytics
https://switching.software/replace/google-fonts

[teto]

I wouldn't mind but I am not the one consulting the statistics.
In any case considering our current workload, this probably would need an external PR to happen.

[cweagans]

We could move the fonts into the website directly sure, but analytics is tricky. None of the other services listed on that page are free, hosted solutions like Google Analytics. I think I set up GA initially because I wasn't willing to run additional infrastructure. If you can talk one of the other hosted solutions there into giving us free analytics, I imagine that would be just fine.

[jamessan]

Do we know if anyone actually reviews the analytics? I didn't even realize we had them and would be fine with getting rid of it.

[teto]

same

[cweagans]

I review them occasionally but it may not be worthwhile to collect the data in the first place.

[teto]

I am in favour of removing it if there is no good solution to replace it but now that we have figures, it would be nice to share them on our @gitter before ditching it (in terms of evolution, absolute numbers etc)

[cweagans]

I probably won't be able to do much on that front in the immediate future, but i can give you access if you'd like so that you can pull numbers. if you'd like to go that route, let me know which google account i should use.

[justinmk]

send a PR?

[rockerBOO]

Moving from Google Fonts with #205