[fab] Re: Firefox splash page tracker

[Robert 'Bob' Jensen]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 00:16 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>> seth vidal wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 23:39 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>>>> seth vidal wrote:
>>>>> hey guys,
>>>>>  The goal of this tracker is to determine how many folks we have
>>>>> installing fedora, right?
>>>>>
>>>>> If we can assume that it is likely that a user will be using
>>>>> yum/pirut/puplet in a default install then we should be able to gather
>>>>> the information on how many folks are using it (hence installing fedora)
>>>>> from the mirrors.fedoraproject.org mirrorlist generating program. It'll
>>>>> track hits against it and we can then mine those logs for the number of
>>>>> users w/o obtaining much other information than 'they used
>>>>> yum/pirut/puplet'.
>>>>>
>>>>> It also requires nothing of us other than putting a log watcher on
>>>>> fedoraproject.org.
>>>> Does that track unique users or just hits?  Hits isn't that interesting. 
>>>>   Unique visitors is.
>>> it's just a url running under apache. It tracks what apache tracks
>>> whenever someone hits a page. So, yes, definitely tracking unique
>>> visitors.
>> There are only two ways that I know of to track unique visitors.  1. 
>> Cookies or 2. Explicit registration (or registration behind the scenes.)
>>
>> I suspect you're thinking of unique IPs (as greg mentions in other 
>> email?)  Or do pup + friends track using cookies?
> 
> Then you're correct, we're not tracking anything besides unique ips. 
> 
> -sv
> 

Not knowing exactly what numbers are wanted from this task is making 
this hard. I would think for total number of users/IPs the yum solution 
would be much better as those without a GUI installed would never get 
counted, if only desktop users are the number that is interesting then 
the Splash Page is best I guess.

I would like to see perhaps a "Fedora Users Survey" as part of the FC7 
splash page for more detailed information such as "How many Fedora 
installs do you have?", "How do you use Fedora?", "Do you use other 
Distros like A, B and C?", "Why do you use Fedora?"

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