More metrics in dashboard

[maxscience]

Would be nice to add some more metrics/viz like:

• Most popular posts
• Most popular tags (as in number of views)

[PaulieScanlon]

Hey @maxscience this sounds like a good idea. I have thought about this but counting post views or votes/likes would require some kind of back end service. What would you suggest for a lightweight service to handle this kind of thing?

[maxscience]

Sure, you could use

• https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/dimensions-metrics-explorer/
• https://www.gosquared.com/blog/visitors-currently-on-this-page

[PaulieScanlon]

@maxscience to be honest, it would probably be good to integrate google analytics anyway. I'll add it to the list and investigate

perhaps in gatsby-config i could add an optional googleAnalyticsId to the config which can be used to ping off page views etc.

With regard to pulling the data back into the Dashboard i guess i'd need to look at making api calls on page load so the data stays up to date. Not something i've investigated in Gatsby before.

[maxscience]

https://www.gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-plugin-google-analytics