Add some web traffic monitoring and analysis

[ljacomet]

We should have some kind of traffic monitoring so that we know how well blog articles do, how much documentation gets consulted and so forth.

The following is a nice intro into enabling Google Analytics in a Jekyll site: https://michaelsoolee.com/google-analytics-jekyll/

[mathieucarbou]

I have some knowledges in SEO, sharing, and tracking. Here would be the task list for this issue:

• Create / reuse a Gmail account to use with Google analytics and Google Webmaster Tools
• In Google Analytics: create a web property for http://www.ehcache.org/ (=> to have an urchin tracker ID)
• Update the website to include the tracking JS code
• In Google Webmaster Tools, add a property and follow the website verification steps.
• In Google Webmaster Tools, link the Google Analytics property and upload the sitemap.xml
• Update the website to setup some utm tracking attributes (utm_source, utm_) when generating sharing URIs and facebook / twitter / .. cards URIs
• Do a quick follow up some days after in Google Webmaster Tools once Google has parsed the website.

[gibsong]

Do you guys mind if I take this issue? I might not be able to work on it right away but I would like to do it.

[mathieucarbou]

You're welcomed!

The only issue is that I've asked @ljacomet / @jhouserizer / etc. for the Google Account to use several times, so that we have an urchin ID and we can link google analytics and web master tools together (which finds errors in pages and errors when viewing on different devices).

But I had no update. Perhaps too busy ;-)

[ljacomet]

@mathieucarbou @gibsong: @akomakom pushed PR #84 that I merged which means all first three items have been completed.

[ljacomet]

All the javadoc is not covered by this - it lacks the tracking code. We need to find a way to add this - either when generating the javadoc, as a post-process task during import into site source or during site generation.

[akomakom]

I vote against generation-time since anyone who decides to browse/host their own copy would then be reporting. I'll look into the other options, although my first high-level question is: where should it go? Frameset? Each frame?