Feature: A page that sets all analytics cookies at once to exclude FOLA volunteers from analytics #2072
Labels
data
Issue involves data management and analysis.
dev
Code Development
Feature: Analytics
Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, other instrumentation & tools
Ready for dev lead
Issue ready for dev lead to review
Research
Role: User Research
Tasks related to understanding users, needs, context
The need
Usefulness: 4/5 (5 is most impactful)
Why: because volunteer’s usage data is confounding our usage analyses
Requires a dev and (a researcher or PM)
We use various analytics packages on our site to help us improve it, but we need a way to exclude FOLA volunteers usage from that data, because our own use of the site messes up the data we collect.
What to build
A single page or javascript that sets all of our ‘exclude me’ analytics cookies:
These cookies should either exclude the user from data collection or tag their collected data for easy exclusion during analysis.
How is it now?
Right now FOLA volunteer’s visiting pages, often repeatedly while debugging, messes up our page visits data.
Proposed new feature
This page should be available from a hidden link on the FOLA public site, perhaps small text on the FOLA log-in screen.
All FOLA volunteers would be required to visit this during onboarding.
This javascript snippet should be run automatically for anyone visiting the dev sites or who enter via the log-in screen on the public site, because by definition, anyone visiting those are FO volunteers
3. Make sure that our analytics packages are only collecting data from the public site.
4. Nice to have: Some visual indicator for FOLA volunteers that they need to set their cookies again… not sure how this would work.
Sketch
Discussion
What are some other possible solutions?
What are some challenges?
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