Re: making numpy.org Plausible analytics public

On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM Inessa Pawson via NumPy-Discussion <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, all!
> In 2022, after much research and discussion with the NumPy maintainers and
> active contributors, we replaced Google Analytics with Plausible, an open
> source lightweight alternative that doesn’t collect personal data and
> provides the option for self-hosting. A dashboard for numpy.org (the part
> that runs on Hugo) was set up on the Scientific Python Project server. For
> the past three years, insights derived from the available website traffic
> data have helped prioritize the efforts of the NumPy documentation and
> translation teams. To better understand user needs for the NumPy
> documentation (generated with Sphinx), this month, we also added a
> Plausible script to the numpy/numpy repository.
>
> We are now considering making the dashboards public so that the collected
> data is available to the broader contributor community. If you have any
> questions or concerns, please share your feedback by December 1st.
>

That sounds quite useful to me, and I can't think of any privacy or other
concerns with doing this. Thanks for pushing this forward Inessa!

Cheers,
Ralf

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