597623 - Turn on analytics for /start/ and /welcome/

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Product Site, defect)

Description

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

Right now, we don't have analytics on /start/ or /welcome/. Fixin this is trivial, but the reason we didn't initially was because of a longstanding bug about a race condition when a user has the "Ask me before accepting each cookie" preference checked and starts up Camino. As I recall it, if the default browser isn't set as Camino (and they still have the preference set to "ask"), the browser locks up

If we're okay with the possibility of some users hitting this issue, we can add analytics to the page in a matter of minutes (seconds, really).

Thoughts?

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

That sounds super-bad. We should see if that still happens, and if so try to fix it.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

I can't reproduce that specific situation, but I might be remembering it wrong...

Smokey, do you remember the race condition we had here?

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Probably some variation of bug 354643 (or its predecessor, which was really awful), but iirc there's also a race with the proxy login sheet (I can't find that bug, either open or closed, so it's possible we decided it was a Core bug, though that seems a bit unlikely, too).

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

Yeah, so, let's do this, aight?

Comment 6

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I guess we can do that and if it fails spectacularly, turn it off.  I'd prefer to do this when we have a lower-volume release coming next to test, rather than 2.0.x, though.

Comment 7

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

I'd prefer to do it nowish and see how things handle. I really don't expect *load* to be a problem at all since it's just referencing Google's servers (and if Google's down, there are bigger problems). If we do it now, we should see problems from new users, assuming there are problems at all.

Do we have a 2.0.x release coming soon?

Comment 8

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Sure, now-ish is fine with me.  I'm worried about latent blocked state bugs, not load ;)  2.1b1 should come before 2.0.7 does.

Comment 9

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

Turned these on at a few seconds after midnight PST. Resolving as FIXED.

Comment 10

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

Just a follow up:

After 24 hours with with stats on, we've seen a 19.2x increase in visits, almost all of it coming from the start page.

Comment 11

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

And one last follow up. After 30 days with the stats on for these two pages, Google Analytics reports a 2,001.03% increase in visits to caminobrowser.org.