Omniture & Fedora

[Jesse Eversole Jr]

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.

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