# Transparency for Website and Docs engagement analytics

**URL:** https://forum.openrefine.org/t/transparency-for-website-and-docs-engagement-analytics/739
**Category:** Day-to-day project operations
**Created:** [April 28, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/transparency-for-website-and-docs-engagement-analytics/739 "2023-04-28T02:55:38Z")
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### Author: ![thadguidry](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/thadguidry/32/653_2.png) [@thadguidry](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/thadguidry)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/transparency-for-website-and-docs-engagement-analytics/739/1 "2023-04-28T02:55:38Z")

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I think we should look to using the [Plausible Analytics](https://plausible.io/) system to track engagement across our sites. In the interests of transparency and being good web citizens the analytics information we gather could be viewed publicly.

As an example, the [Docusaurus.community](https://docusaurus.community/) website provides a nice button link at the bottom of their site that points to their site analytics gathered by [Plausible · docusaurus.community](https://plausible.io/docusaurus.community)

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### Author: ![Ainali](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/ainali/32/14_2.png) [@Ainali](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Ainali)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2023, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/transparency-for-website-and-docs-engagement-analytics/739/2 "2023-04-30T20:29:08Z")

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That is a quite nice idea! Plausible is an excellent lightweight tool, we use it at [my workplace too](https://plausible.io/publiccode.net?period=month&date=2023-03-30).

If we want more stats, Matomo is also an option that can provide public data. [Here is how it looks like](https://matomo.wikimedia.se/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index&idSite=7&period=day&date=yesterday#?period=month&date=2022-07-01&idSite=7&category=Dashboard_Dashboard&subcategory=1) for the Govdirectory project I am working on.
