FHIR Chat · Usage Statistics

Stream: committers

Topic: Usage Statistics

Bryn Rhodes (Jul 17 2018 at 19:24):

Are there any usage statistics gathered for any of the content published to build.fhir.org? Or is that something that would have to have been included in the IG in order to be tracked?

Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 17 2018 at 19:30):

@David Johnson ?

Grahame Grieve (Jul 17 2018 at 21:18):

nothing on build.fhir.org

Grahame Grieve (Jul 17 2018 at 21:18):

there might be something on hl7.org

David Johnson (Jul 17 2018 at 21:48):

Bryn, what usage statistics are you looking for? sorry to answer late, just getting settled

Bryn Rhodes (Jul 17 2018 at 22:42):

Trying to find out if there's a way to tell how many people have looked at a given IG, and ideally how many have actually downloaded the igpack

Jason Walonoski (Jul 19 2018 at 00:28):

Suggestion: perhaps the published spec can start using Google Analytics... and then at least Grahame and some chosen few can view those statistics live, and perhaps publish summaries in the monthly FHIR Foundation reports. Just a thought.

Grahame Grieve (Jul 19 2018 at 00:43):

perhaps. but I don't want to buy into gdpr problems in the spec itself

Jason Walonoski (Jul 19 2018 at 12:23):

IANAL, but you can turn IP address anonymization on in Google Analytics so that you aren't tracking individuals... and since the spec doesn't have user sessions, you aren't tracking any other user data other than an anonymized IP address. I think it works.