[Koha-devel] Proposal of a new development for Marseille hackfest, feedback needed

[Chris Cormack]

On 12 February 2014 06:30, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com> wrote:
> Hi koha-devel,
>
> There are sometimes debates about how and who is using Koha, how it is
> setup, which decision is of general interest.
> I had 2 ideas that could be developed during the hackfest. 2 of BibLibre
> developers are very motivated by the idea, anyone else can join us ;-)
>
> **** 1st idea : collecting -anonymous- data on staff interface usage
> We sometimes are wondering whether librarians are running an old version
> of IE, or if they have a large screen, or if the page X is often run or not.
> There's a tool that could let us know: piwik (BibLibre already has an
> offer on Piwik for the OPAC)
> The idea here would be to add piwik for staff interface, and collect all
> datas on a single piwik instance.
> We made something (quick) for one of our current supported library, just
> to see what kind result we could get. We're quite happy with the
> performances, datas are interesting (which browser is used, which screen
> size, which pages. [ For example, the library runs an average of 40
> times "reports/catalogue-stats.pl" every day (yes, that's crazy ;-) ).
> This page is worth being optimized !!! ]
>
> The only caveat we've seen for now is that it can be tricky to have many
> websites pointing to the same piwik database.
> We also are not completely peaceful with having 10 000 librarians
> calling the server. We could face a heavy load...
>
> But that's worth investigating imo.
>
> (for those who don't know what is piwik, it's like google analytics, but
> respect your privacy ;-) Ah, and it's a software developed by a frenchy,
> living in new zealand, that has office hosted by catalystNZ afaik)
> If the community likes the idea, we will ask him for any advice on the 2
> caveats we fear.
> [ PS: please avoid starting a troll about piwik collecting anonymous
> data or not because of the IP. Anyway, the feature will be trigger-able
> by the library. ]
>
Hi Paul

I have cced the piwik devs who are indeed working in the  Catalyst NZ
offices (up on level 9, hi Matthieu and Thomas) who might have some
ideas around this.

Chris