daveaglick
Gather analytics data and use it to promote content
Spoke with @cecilphillip about an idea that's been bouncing around in my head for a little while - it would be cool to get some metrics on what folks are clicking on and then use that in the site.
Here's some ideas:
- A list of the most popular blog posts from the last week (also exposed as an API endpoint)
- Popular projects (and API endpoint)
- A little "hot" icon next to things getting a lot of attention
- Sparklines that show relative traffic
Cecil suggested Application Insights might be a good tool for this. It could track and gather the analytics, and then the build process could query for any data it needs from the Application Insights REST API.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently. One idea I had is to pull engagement data from other APIs:
- Feedly (will need to pull posts for each feed, match them up, then get the Feedly engagement stat
- Reddit (total or average number of votes across instances of link)
- Twitter (total posts + retweets of given content)
- Hacker News
- Application Insights click tracking
We’ll need some way to combine these. First thought is to normalize each metric from 0 - 100, average them, then subtract 10 (or some other number) per day so stuff falls off over time.