662370 - Add WebTrends code to About Mozilla blog template

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: WebOps: Other, task)

Description

[David Boswell]

There are no web traffic stats for the About Mozilla blog, although blog.mozilla.com is tracking other blog content in WebTrends.

To get this working, I think we just need to add the WebTrends code below (taken from blog.mozilla.com main page) to the About Mozilla template right before the closing body tag.

<script defer src="http://blog.mozilla.com/wp-content/js/webtrends/webtrends-v0.1.js"></script><noscript><div><img alt="DCSIMG" id="DCSIMG" width="1" height="1" src="http://statse.webtrendslive.com/dcsfnk37m00000gss18cknplo_6g5c/njs.gif?dcsuri=/nojavascript&amp;WT.js=No&amp;WT.tv=8.6.2"/></div></noscript>

If for some reason this isn't feasible, would it be possible to turn on WordPress's stats?  I'm not seeing this in the WordPress admin and assume it was turned off because it wasn't needed because of the WebTrends stats.

Comment 1

[David Boswell]

Ping.  Is there someone who can make this addition to the About Mozilla template on blog.mozilla.com?

Comment 2

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

I'm not sure we should be sharing stuff from the blog.mozilla.com main page, since I'm not sure how webtrends works. Going to punt this to metrics to get an okay.

Comment 3

[David Boswell]

To confirm, that WebTrends tag is on more than just the blog.mozilla.com home page.  Any page on blog.mozilla.com that we want stats for needs a WebTrends tag.

lforrest, can you check and see if the tag mentioned in the description above is the right one to use for the blog.mozilla.com/about_mozilla/ pages?  Thanks.

Comment 4

[Laura Forrest]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm not sure we should be sharing stuff from the blog.mozilla.com main page,
> since I'm not sure how webtrends works. Going to punt this to metrics to get
> an okay.

Hey Shyam - thanks for checking regarding Webtrends (I'm the internal contact person for all things Webtrendy) it's okay to implement this tracking onto /about_mozilla using the code provided by David.

Comment 5

[David Boswell]

Shyam, did Laura's response in comment #4 answer your question about WebTrends?

Comment 6

[David Boswell]

Ping.  Just checking to see if there's an update.

Comment 7

[David Boswell]

Moving back to Server Ops for making this change in the templates.

Comment 8

[David Boswell]

Can someone please respond about adding the WebTrends code below (taken from the blog.mozilla.com main page) to the About Mozilla blog template right before the closing body tag?  Thanks.

<script defer src="http://blog.mozilla.com/wp-content/js/webtrends/webtrends-v0.1.js"></script><noscript><div><img alt="DCSIMG" id="DCSIMG" width="1" height="1" src="http://statse.webtrendslive.com/dcsfnk37m00000gss18cknplo_6g5c/njs.gif?dcsuri=/nojavascript&amp;WT.js=No&amp;WT.tv=8.6.2"/></div></noscript>

Comment 9

[David Boswell]

Assigning to mrz to help determine what the next steps are.  It's been about a month since there's been a response to any of my comments here.

Comment 10

[David Boswell]

Could someone please comment in this bug so I have some visibility about what's going on?  Is this in a queue somewhere or is further action needed on my part to move this forward?

Comment 11

[Jake Maul [:jakem]]

oremj did the right thing between comments 8 and 9 by punting this to Webdev. Server Ops does not modify code (including templates)... we just push out the modified version. :)

As far as the delay, last week in particular was rather slow for us, as all of IT was in training for the whole week. Sorry about that... lots of things got bumped, including this. Had to prioritize the outages and pushes.


In any case, I'm going to kick this back to webdev for implementation. I'm not exactly sure who maintains the blog themes, but I'll CC a random one who might know... fwenzel, any idea who specifically to kick this to?

Comment 12

[David Boswell]

Jake, thanks for the update.  No problem about the delays -- just good to have some visibility about where things are.

Wenzel, thanks in advance for clearing up who to talk to about this.

Comment 13

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

I can do it, then throw this back to IT to update.

Comment 14

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Landed this on SVN in r92666. I took the code from comment 0, expect it should work on both HTTP and HTTPS.

Back over to IT, please update that theme on our blog server. Thanks!

Comment 15

[Jake Maul [:jakem]]

Looks like a lot of work has happened on the UserResearch-Nova theme lately, but I do see the about_mozilla/footer.php change.

This should be live now. However, I'm not sure it's working quite right... looking more closely at the code in it, I see both the script and img tags have something like this:

src="//...."

That should probably be "https:// or "http://"... or some sort of code to pick one or the other. Using the web console, it looks like Firefox guesses and inserts "http:" for you, but that's probably not good to rely on unless we know it's some kind of standard.


If you're happy with how it is now, let me know and we'll just close this out. Otherwise, maybe a bit more webdev time...



[root@mradm02 themes]# svn up
A    UserResearch-Nova
A    UserResearch-Nova/searchform.php
A    UserResearch-Nova/footer.php
A    UserResearch-Nova/style.css
A    UserResearch-Nova/author.php
A    UserResearch-Nova/css
A    UserResearch-Nova/css/login.css
A    UserResearch-Nova/css/print.css
A    UserResearch-Nova/css/editor-style.css
A    UserResearch-Nova/css/ie7.css
A    UserResearch-Nova/search.php
A    UserResearch-Nova/main-nav.php
A    UserResearch-Nova/screenshot.jpg
A    UserResearch-Nova/404.php
A    UserResearch-Nova/index.php
A    UserResearch-Nova/functions.php
A    UserResearch-Nova/page.php
A    UserResearch-Nova/page-archives.php
A    UserResearch-Nova/single.php
A    UserResearch-Nova/archive.php
A    UserResearch-Nova/page-who-we-are.php
A    UserResearch-Nova/comments.php
A    UserResearch-Nova/js
A    UserResearch-Nova/js/fc-checkcomment.js
A    UserResearch-Nova/js/html5.js
A    UserResearch-Nova/js/webtrends.js
A    UserResearch-Nova/img
A    UserResearch-Nova/img/arr-left.png
A    UserResearch-Nova/img/icn-search.png
A    UserResearch-Nova/img/avatar.png
A    UserResearch-Nova/img/arr-right.png
A    UserResearch-Nova/img/bg-meta-sep.png
A    UserResearch-Nova/img/bg-quote.png
A    UserResearch-Nova/img/arr-go.png
A    UserResearch-Nova/img/dots.png
A    UserResearch-Nova/img/page-background.png
A    UserResearch-Nova/img/icn-feed.png
A    UserResearch-Nova/img/favicon.ico
A    UserResearch-Nova/img/mozilla-tab.png
A    UserResearch-Nova/header.php
U    about_mozilla/footer.php
Updated to revision 92666.

Comment 16

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

(In reply to comment #15)
> Looks like a lot of work has happened on the UserResearch-Nova theme lately,
> but I do see the about_mozilla/footer.php change.

All right. If no-one is using it, I don't think the additional files hurt.

> This should be live now. However, I'm not sure it's working quite right...
> looking more closely at the code in it, I see both the script and img tags
> have something like this:
> 
> src="//...."
> 
> That should probably be "https:// or "http://"... or some sort of code to
> pick one or the other. Using the web console, it looks like Firefox guesses
> and inserts "http:" for you, but that's probably not good to rely on unless
> we know it's some kind of standard.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-4.2

All good from my side, thanks!

Comment 17

[Jake Maul [:jakem]]

Awesome! Didn't know about that RFC. Resolving this bug. Thanks all!

Comment 18

[David Boswell]

Thanks Wenzel.

I need to wait until tomorrow to see if WebTrends is getting data from these pages -- they only update stats every 24 hours, IIRC.  I'll check tomorrow and see if anything is in there.

Comment 19

[David Boswell]

...and thanks to Jake too :)

Comment 20

[David Boswell]

FYI, I wasn't seeing any stats for the About Mozilla blog pages this morning.  Possible that we need one more day for this to get into a WebTrends report.  Will check again tomorrow morning.

Comment 21

[David Boswell]

No About Mozilla blog stats in the blog.mozilla.com profile today either.  I'll try looking at the profile to see if it's restricting tracking to just specific parts of the blog.mozilla.com site or if it might be something else.

Comment 22

[Jake Maul [:jakem]]

Not sure what's wrong with it. I see the tags in the source code, and when fetching the page I can see it request the content from statse.webtrendslive.com:

[09:45:47.937] GET https://statse.webtrendslive.com/dcsis0ifv10000gg3ag82u4rf_7b1e/dcs.gif?&dcsdat=.....

Guessing it's a problem on WebTrends' end somewhere. Let us know if there's anything we (infra) can do to help.

Comment 23

[David Boswell]

Yeah, I'm assuming the tag is correct.  Maybe some filtering going on in the profile?  Will try to take a look into this later today.