I made this change (and opened an issue to make sure anyone watching the repository was aware of that change, I didn't intend to hide anything)
FWIW, this was already discussed before:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/issues/121
While I think it is particularly useful, Analytics wasn't setup at the time and I agree with this decision. I am OK with gmaxwell request to "follow the rule" and always use pull req. I just didn't think there would be issues, especially given that this was a temporary measure to help us moving to a dedicated server, which actually improves privacy (no more GitHub pages).
As for getting statistics, once there is a dedicated server, I thought it would be great to have our own statistics (and I personally have no problem making this information public if others agree). Yet, make sure we periodically purge IP logs and never leak this information.
Topic: Google analytics on Bitcoin.org (Read 2062 times)
Why not use Piwik? At least it's free and open-source software, and you can run your own instance, instead of having some third party get the data.
I've been using it for years. It's high quality.
I've been using it for years. It's high quality.
who is going to be the owner of the gmail account associated with the analytics ? Saivann ?
I dunno if anyone will care, but Google Analytics was added to Bitcoin.org today without any prior notice. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/issues/285
This was somewhat controversial when it was proposed in the past.
If you don't want a third party tracker keeping a record of your visits, it would probably be best to not visit right now. ... presumably anyone who actually cares has completely blocked Google Analytics already, but I thought wide disclosure of this would be prudent since it even took me by surprise, and I follow all the changes to Bitcoin.org.
This was somewhat controversial when it was proposed in the past.
If you don't want a third party tracker keeping a record of your visits, it would probably be best to not visit right now. ... presumably anyone who actually cares has completely blocked Google Analytics already, but I thought wide disclosure of this would be prudent since it even took me by surprise, and I follow all the changes to Bitcoin.org.
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