Stop using Google Analytics on XWiki.org

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Hi everyone,

I would like to propose that we stop using Google Analytics on xwiki.org. I haven’t yet heard of any decision or analysis that we did with the collected data since I joined XWiki now almost three years ago, and therefore I suggest we stop collecting it and ask Google to delete the collected data. If we want to do basic analytics, like knowing which pages are popular, we can also analyze the access logs of the web server.

I don’t know when or how we decided to use Google Analytics, but as I assume that this reverses a previous decision to use it, I’m opening this as a vote.

I’ll leave this vote open until August 6.

Thank you very much!

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I’m rather -1 ATM as that would be preventing us to be able to check later on about changes on xwiki.org. We have used it in the past and while it’s true that we haven’t used it recently, I feel it’s good to have a history. We’re supposed to use it to improve xwiki.org, it’s just that we’re not spending the time we should and removing it will not help (it’ll do the opposite).

If the idea is to replace google analytics with another tool (like matomo) then I’m very fine. And using the request logs as a substitute is really a no go for me, you can’t assume that everyone will have access and there’s a lot more info displayed in tools like google analytics or matomo.

You didn’t say why you’re proposing to remove it (except maybe to not send data to google?), could you elaborate?

Thanks

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I’m very much a friend of the principle of data economy, so not to collect data that we don’t use which is also a principle of the GDPR.

There are tools that provide visualizations of the data that is in request logs. If there is a real need for an analytics tool, I’m fine with using Matomo which also has a nice integration in XWiki.

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