Posted by
ctrueden on
Oct 05, 2016; 2:38pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Page-Counter-Gone-Re-Add-tp5017279p5017297.html
Hi Nathan,
> I've never actually used google analytics (suggested in link you
> sent), is there a simple way to incorporate their tracking if
> MediaWiki no longer supports their own counter? I quickly tried
> pasting several different suggested pieces of code into my webpage but
> none seemed to add tracking data. Do you have any experience with it?
If your goal is to measure the popularity of your plugin(s), tracking hits
on your wiki page is not a very reliable metric. It would probably be
better to look at the popularity of your update site(s), which can be done
by analyzing web logs.
We tried to add a feature to ImageJ to measure the popularity of individual
plugins based on how frequently they are actually executed, which would be
more accurate. But unfortunately, the ImageJ community rejected these
improvements [1, 2]. In the long term, ImageJ will probably switch to a
more granular plugin installation scheme, where plugins are installed by
users individually on demand, similar to how Icy does it. Such a system
would have many advantages, including users avoiding perceived "plugin
bloat" of unused features, as well as more reliable statistics about which
plugins are actually popular/useful and hence potentially worthy of
dedicated funding.
Regards,
Curtis
[1]
http://imagej.1557.x6.nabble.com/ImageJ-2-0-0-rc-11-released-tt5009074.html[2]
http://imagej.1557.x6.nabble.com/ImageJ-2-0-0-rc-13-released-tt5009146.html--
Curtis Rueden
LOCI software architect -
http://loci.wisc.edu/softwareImageJ2 lead, Fiji maintainer -
http://imagej.net/User:RuedenDid you know ImageJ has a forum?
http://forum.imagej.net/On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Nathan Hotaling <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hey Curtis thanks for the response. My boss was asking how many page
> views we had because he wants it for an annual update on why our code is
> important in the community and if its gaining traction in a wider audience
> than just our lab/group. I think that any metric that would help reflect
> that would be invaluable. Are number of downloads or some other metric
> tracked somewhere?
>
> I've never actually used google analytics (suggested in link you sent), is
> there a simple way to incorporate their tracking if MediaWiki no longer
> supports their own counter? I quickly tried pasting several different
> suggested pieces of code into my webpage but none seemed to add tracking
> data. Do you have any experience with it?
>
> Nathan
>
>
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