title: Metrics
Current status
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Metrics are collected:
- Manually
- Only by sajolida and intrigeri
- Into text files
- In the internal Git repo
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We are collecting:
- Community metrics
- Subscribers to amnesia-news
- Messages on tails-dev
- Subscribers on tails-dev
- Twitter followers
- Help desk
- Messages on tails-bug
- WhisperBack reports
- Releases
- Date
- Size
- Usage
- Boots
- Downloads of the OpenPGP signature
- Community metrics
Concerns
- The workload is not shared
- The data is not systematically published (some are in the monthly reports)
- Manual process
Taking a step back...
- Why are we collecting these metrics?
- What shall we do with them?
- What metrics are most important to collect?
- What kind of tools and infrastructure shall we use to manage these metrics?
- Where do we store them? Who has access to them?
Ideas of abstract goals behind the numbers
From a brainstorming session, with no priorities or check on whether these are possible and worth it to gather.
- Find how many users we do have? What are the trends?
- How many bugs? Per category? Are we carrying around old bugs? Are we adding new bugs?
- Are we reducing errors for users ?
- Are we reducing the time needed for task completion?
- Help desk reports
- How technically skilled do you need to be to use Tails? How technically skilled are our users?
- Donations
- How many donations do we get?
- How much are people donation?
- When do we get donation?
- Incoming links? Who is endorsing Tails?
- Where are the users located?
- How big, diverse and active is our community?
- Statistics on private and public meetings:
- How many people attended?
- How many meetings?
- How many newcomers?
- Conferences
- Attended?
- How many mentions?
- How fast to we solve problems?
- Security issues
- How organized and accountable we are?
- Conversion rate
- User agents
- Heat map of the website usage
- Are people coming to download the image?
- Are people coming to read the documentation?
- Why are people interested in Tails?
Possible ways to gather this data
- Ticket tracker for help desk
- Web analytic
- Surveys