Suggested doc: add recommendation for analytics page

[a-mccarthy]

This idea came out of a conversation with @nate-double-u around analytics for project sites. Analytics provide valuable information around content usage and can help a community prioritize pages to focus energy on across many levels of docs work, including release docs, localization work, etc.

Some possible recommendations ideas

• how to get analytics information. All CNCF project teams should have access to site analytics though Netlify Analytics. This feature must be enabled on each site
• make analytic information available to your community. Create a analytics page on your site, for example see the Kubernetes Viewing Analytics page. Or present information regularly at community meetings

[a-mccarthy]

@nate-double-u hopefully this captures what we were chatting about yesterday!

[chalin]

• Related: Migrate CNCF websites to GA4 #108

[chalin]

We might also want to recommend the following approach:

• Set the analytics ID in Netlify config open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io#1626

[a-mccarthy]

I've been working on updating the kubernetes dashboard to use GA4 and I was able to make a more "blank" template in looker studio. https://lookerstudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/df34ae1f-5ce4-452f-9f3d-87dc50273dd2/page/4VDGB/edit

The idea is that if a project wants to have a dashboard of their analytics available they can copy this dashboard template and connect to their ga4 account as a data source. Hopefully its as "simple" as that, but i dont have any way to test this b/c i dont have access to any other ga4 account :) (the dashboard is connected to the Kubernetes account so the charts work)

Some thoughts

• It assumes that a projects ga4 account already exists and is set up similar to the kubernetes account
• page 4 of the dashboard is a "How to set up a dashboard" docs page, but is in need of some updates specifically
  • the permissions section needs to be updated to be more generic (but i need another account to test to see how to set it up properly)
  • make sure the set up section is completed, needs another account to step through the process with to make sure the steps are all there.

Not sure how much of a need other projects have for something like this, but it was pretty straightforward to create a first pass template, so I figured i'd share it and see if there is any interest in refining it :)

[chalin]

Wow, this is great! Thanks for having persisted in getting this to work.

I'll give it a spin for the OTel site if maintainers are open to it:

• Public Google Analytics Dashboard open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io#4017