Introducing GitHub Traffic Analytics

https://github.com/blog/1672-introducing-github-traffic-analytics

by xPaw • 13 years ago

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ozh• 13 years ago

About time. Thanks Github :)

colinbartlett• 13 years ago

So that Google Analytics for GitHub project is already obsolete?

dewey• 13 years ago

Not if you want to aggregate your stats in your Google Analytics Dashboard.

joshpeek• 13 years ago

You can still export the data from GitHub Analytics into Google Analytics. That'd give you more info then what you get from a bad image hack.

abritishguy• 13 years ago

Well that makes https://github.com/igrigorik/ga-beacon somewhat redundant

igrigorik• 13 years ago

Wohoo! https://twitter.com/jnunemaker/status/420634885552754688 :)

pselbert2• 13 years ago

Figures, I just found out about ga-beacon yesterday. This saved me a good bit of effort!

prezjordan• 13 years ago

Excellent! IIRC there used to be a "traffic" chart, no? I don't remember it doing anything, though.

EDIT: According to my Timehop they also released the "contributions" graph a year ago (the little grid on your profile) - great feature :)

kclay• 13 years ago

this is great

lukebaker• 13 years ago

Does this provide traffic details for GitHub Pages associated with the repo?

technoweenie• 13 years ago

Nope. You're free to use whatever you want on your own pages (Google Analytics, Gauges, etc).

heuermh• 13 years ago

Bitdeli (https://bitdeli.com/) is another free service that provides analytics for Github pages. I have been using it but didn't like the association with AdRoll, a targeted advertising company.

vtuulos• 13 years ago

Just to clarify: GitHub Analytics at https://bitdeli.com has been a fun side project of mine and jtuulos - it has nothing to do with AdRoll.

tedivm• 13 years ago

Oh thank you thank you thank you! This disappeared when they introduced the new graphs, and I've been missing them ever since. This time we can even see uniques, which is awesome.

nilved2• 13 years ago

Notably, Google Analytics and the ga-beacon can be blocked by disabling JavaScript or blocking the beacon's domain. How can privacy-conscious users avoid being tracked by this feature?

e: I've just looked at my own pages' analytics and was quite surprised to find data from before today. Is this to say that GitHub has been surrepticiously recording data about my project without any way to opt out?

pselbert2• 13 years ago

From my understanding all Github features are deployed to staff only behind a feature flag. Naturally they had it partially in production before flipping the flag for everybody

That said, surely the notion of a website where you are hosting content tracking who is visiting individual pages is not outrageous.

nilved2• 13 years ago

c.f. your web host inspecting your access logs. My project is my own and your platform is yours. That said, my primary concern is that I as a user have no way to opt out.

sqs• 13 years ago

Shameless plug: my site, Sourcegraph, gives you a 1990s-style numeric visit counter for your READMEs, among other things.

https://sourcegraph.com/help/authors/badges

While GitHub Traffic Analytics shows the repository author much more info, the Sourcegraph counter makes the visitor count visible to everybody. This helps users see how popular your project is.

Introducing GitHub Traffic Analytics

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