Open Bug 1511114 Opened 6 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Overhaul client-side use-counter data collection

Categories

(Toolkit :: Telemetry, enhancement, P3)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Telemetry
Type:
enhancement

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Tracking Status
firefox65 --- affected

People

(Reporter: gfritzsche, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

The current usage of Telemetry for use-counters is not ideal and wasteful.
I'm filing this bug to keep track of this and looking into alternatives.

We use lots of boolean histograms to count feature usage, two histograms counting usage per "page" and "document". Each histogram then counts both "used" and "unused".

Ideally we can do a more optimized implementation e.g.:
- just collect one set of counters (e.g. only for usage per "page")
- have one global "page" counter
- for each feature, use one scalar that counts whether it was "used" in a page load

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/telemetry/telemetry/collection/use-counters.html
Severity: normal → S3
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