Measure website traffic pre/post launch of new site

[rgommers]

We now have Google Analytics integration, that data will only show up post-launch.

For Cloudflare data from Aug 2019, see #30 (comment).

Cloudflare gives us the current (23 May 2020) status pre-launch:

[rgommers]

We launched halfway through May 24th (third data point from the right here):

Unclear why visitor numbers were up in the couple of days pre-launch, however so far it looks like we're going to get a structural increase. Let's check back in some days/weeks.

[rgommers]

Data from last week (3 Aug 2020):

Only a very modest increase, which is a little puzzling.

[rgommers]

Not sure why Google Analytics doesn't see nearly as much visitors, 14x less:

[rgommers]

Adding SimilarWeb's statistics before the pre-launch data is no longer visible:

[InessaPawson]

Not sure why Google Analytics doesn't see nearly as much visitors, 14x less:

One of the reasons is that GA is blocked in China, one of NumPy’s top user and developer locales.

[rgommers]

Data from today:

That should be enough, I'll close the issue.