Omniture & Fedora

[Max Spevack]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Jesse Eversole Jr wrote:

> Anyone who would like to know more about how our website tracking 
> infrastructure works please feel free to contact me. It suffices to 
> say that you will find it far superior to awstats having been a user 
> of awstats in the past.

To be clear:

I am not proposing that Fedora *stop* using awstats.  I love awstats.

I am trying to open the door for Jesse to explain to the Fedora 
webmasters how we can make a few tweaks to enable Omniture, and why that 
would be useful to the larger body of Red Hat, and be a reasonably 
simple thing for Fedora to do.

Jesse, could you give these folks some details?  I'm opening the door 
for you, but you've gotta step through it :)

--Max

> Max Spevack wrote:
>> Fedora Webmasters:
>> 
>> A while back (maybe back when we were still split between fedora.redhat.com 
>> and fedoraproject.org), we had some code on a few of our pages that allowed 
>> basic web statistics to be sucked into Red Hat's larger web traffic 
>> analysis program -- the stuff that tracks visits for redhat.com, jboss.com, 
>> etc.
>> 
>> Red Hat uses something called Omniture for this.
>> http://www.omniture.com/
>> 
>> In Fedora, we use awstats to track lots of things about people who visit 
>> *.fedoraproject.org, and I personally find those stats to be very 
>> interesting and revealing.
>> 
>> The folks who manage Red Hat's Omniture stuff would like to add in a little 
>> bit of tracking into Fedora's websites.
>> 
>> My understanding is that this would involve the addition of some Javascript 
>> on *selected* pages (perhaps index.html, get-fedora.html, join.html, 
>> release notes, whatever. We can discuss that).
>> 
>> The purpose of adding this in would be to allow Red Hat's larger web 
>> analysis group to see how Fedora traffic compares to and maps to other Red 
>> Hat traffic. This would be valuable to them, and I would ask the Fedora 
>> Websites team to allow Jesse Eversole (Red Hat engineer who I have copied 
>> on this message) to share more details with you and then consider the 
>> proposal.
>> 
>> Thank you for your time.
>> 
>> --Max
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