patrickhulce / patrickhulce/third-party-web

Classification inconsistencies in Analytics category

Open
#108 2 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
1.1k
Forks
112
Avg merge
22h 26m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

Description

@patrickhulce I've been looking at a adding the other RUM products as per https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/who-are-the-top-rum-analytics-providers/15/25 but notices inconsistencies in the way some of the existing products are classified.

Some RUM scripts (SpeedCurve, mPulse) are classified as analytics, others (AppDynamics, New Relic and RayGun) are classified utilities and they all really belong in the same category.

As a separate thought I also wonder if the analytics category is too wide – GA, Yandex Metrica etc. are very different to FullStory, HotJar, Decibel Insight etc. which are very different to RUM products (at least in their current implementations) – but can see issues with creating extra categories, has here been any thoughts on sub-categories?

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Review how existing RUM products are classified, then resolve whether they should share one category or whether analytics needs sub-categories; done means the classification approach is agreed and applied consistently.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
analytics
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.