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Re: Call for Community Input: Web Analytics on www.ietf.org

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Tue, 21 May 2019 16:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: Call for Community Input: Web Analytics on www.ietf.org
From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 17:04:08 +0100
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Frankly, I want to track how long it takes to generate pages on them, because my perception of the performance is that it's pretty bad. I don't care about tracking users from page to page, etc.

Cheers,


> On 21 May 2019, at 5:00 pm, Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com> wrote:
> 
>>   I agree that tools and datatracker should be included; while the "main" site is important, they are the critical resources that most people interact with.
> 
> I believe the community that uses datatracker is, mostly, different from the community that uses the main website. What is the point of doing analytics -- which community are we mainly trying to assess and improve?  I believe datatracker has a broad enough input channel for improvement and should be left out of this effort.
> 
> I will be sad on the day that the IETF puts up a "we use cookies" GDPR notification.  I share Stephen's mild concerns about tracking and privacy.
> 
> 

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