Look at piwik for analytics

[ara4n]

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[jfrederickson]

It's worth noting that my browsers block GA as I have uBlock Origin installed and running. As Riot's audience right now is likely fairly technical, I suspect I'm not the only one - you may see a boost in the user count if you switch to something self-hosted due to this. How much of a boost, I don't know, but it's maybe something to keep in mind.

[richvdh]

See also #2075

[richvdh]

To clarify (my understanding of) the Riot team's position on GA:

• User analytics are useful tools and are important to secure our funding (Have opt-in analytics for performance and usage of the app #2075 is the place for debate on whether we should be collecting analytics at all on riot-web)
• GA has been useful in helping us get started collecting metrics quickly, allowing us to concentrate on adding functionality instead.
• The use of a commercial, closed-source, third-party service to collect those analytics does not sit well with a security-conscious open-source project, and many people find the use of a service provided by Google particularly troublesome.
• Users would also like more clarity on what sort of metrics we collect via our analytics.

Switching from GA to a system we can manage ourselves, such as piwik, could help address these concerns. Accordingly it is very much on the feature list.

Finally, to reiterate for clarity: analytics are only collected on the hosted versions of riot-web at https://riot.im (and vector.im). You are of course free to run your own copy of riot-web, which will not collect any analytics at all.

[uhoreg]

For those following this issue and not #2075, #2075 (comment) indicates that Google Analytics has been removed from riot-web for now.

[t3chguy]

Piwik stuff added in #4056, this probably needs breaking off into an issue of what we track, closing this