Closed Bug 1120845 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Telemetry: Average signon timesUsed in storage

Categories

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect, P1)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Password Manager
Type:
defect
Points:
5

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: MattN, Assigned: MattN)

References

Details

User Story

* I want to know whether password manager usage is increasing.

At telemetry collection time report the SUM of the timesUsed field for all signons and divide it by the total number of signons.
We may want to avoid a master password (MP) prompt and skip this if the MP hasn't been entered yet although it will lead to under-counting MP users. A better solution to deal with MP is bug 1120836. Check the calculation with the following command: grep -o -E '"timesUsed":[0-9]+' logins.json | sed 's/"timesUsed"://' | awk '{ sum += $0; count += 1 } END { print sum / count }'
Flags: firefox-backlog+
Points: --- → 5
Flags: qe-verify-
Assignee: nobody → MattN+bmo
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Iteration: --- → 38.1 - 26 Jan
The storage backend could respond to gather-telemetry itself, and avoid the need to trigger the MP (since this data isn't encrypted anyway). Or mostly ignore the problem, as in bug 1120874 comment 6. Do we actually want an average here? Or a histogram? I suspect the latter, since I'd suspect people have lot of infrequently used passwords, and a few frequently used passwords. Which makes an average less useful.
Priority: -- → P1
wontfixing in favor of Bug 1124516.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Iteration: 38.1 - 26 Jan → ---
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