1238729 - Add telemetry for 'add to homescreen'

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

It would potentially assist our decision-making process around prompting for "add to homescreen" (like Chrome and Opera do) if we had data around how many people do this using the existing Page -> Add to homescreen functionality.

(This may already exist but I don't see it at telemetry.m.o. I may just be searching incorrectly as I don't see anything related to the probe added in bug 1219447, either.)

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

telemetry.m.o is all about histograms. We don't use histograms for UI telemetry:

How many people load URLs via homescreen?
http://people.mozilla.org/~mfinkle/uitelemetry/#loadurl-tab (look for "homescreen")

How many people add URLs to homescreen?
http://people.mozilla.org/~mfinkle/uitelemetry/#actions-tab (look for variations of "add_to_launcher")

Comment 2

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #1)
> telemetry.m.o is all about histograms. We don't use histograms for UI
> telemetry:

Thanks for the clarification! Looks like ~0.1% of people (?)

That page brings Firefox to its knees :)

Comment 3

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

(In reply to Andrew Overholt [:overholt] from comment #2)
> (In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #1)
> > telemetry.m.o is all about histograms. We don't use histograms for UI
> > telemetry:
> 
> Thanks for the clarification! Looks like ~0.1% of people (?)

My question mark was meant to say "or sessions?". Either way, looks like pretty low usage.

Comment 4

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Andrew Overholt [:overholt] from comment #3)
> (In reply to Andrew Overholt [:overholt] from comment #2)
> > (In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #1)
> > > telemetry.m.o is all about histograms. We don't use histograms for UI
> > > telemetry:
> > 
> > Thanks for the clarification! Looks like ~0.1% of people (?)
> 
> My question mark was meant to say "or sessions?". Either way, looks like
> pretty low usage.

Those are "events", so it's an aggregate across people and sessions. The percentage is across all "action" type Events. You can change the metric rollup to see the actual number. Yes, I see 0.1%, but there are four different UI paths a person can chose, each at ~0.1% and remember the act of adding an icon to the home screen happens once. After that, you should be looking at how often the icon is used to open Firefox.

There are three (3) tracked ways an Intent can open Firefox:
1. Tap Firefox icon
2. Open a URL from a different app (twitter)
3. Tap homescreen icon.

#2 can be broken into different pathways, since we allow for Tab Queues.

That said, of all the URLs opened via Intents, home screen icons are used 5.7% of the time.