So I need a tiny bit of traffic analysis on my Ghost website, but like…tiny.
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@kissane
Not sure if it's possible to add custom js to a GhostPro account, but perhaps this script might be worth a look:GitHub - berthubert/audience-minutes: generate statistics on the number of audience minutes your site is generating, and if readers make it to the end of your screeds
generate statistics on the number of audience minutes your site is generating, and if readers make it to the end of your screeds - berthubert/audience-minutes
GitHub (github.com)
Another option, if you can download logs is:
I've used it to analyse webserver logs offline & create statistical reports for other people. This might be a bit much for what seem to seek?
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Fun factoid in my very first real computer job out of undergrad my title was "Web Master" (two words) and analyzing logs was a good chunk of what I did, along with faking a CMS in, iirc, Perl. (The real CMS was me.)
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@BjornW Thank you!
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@swacknificent Thank you!
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@waldoj retvrn (to angelfire)
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@blainsmith thank you! this looks about right, tbh!
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@kissane My very first job had a similar task!
One of my responsibilities was babysitting an automatic build and test script written in Perl that I inherited.
The actual bulk of the script was the logic to colour the cells and insert the appropriate row and column spans so the table looked nice. The actual work I did was adding to an ever going switch block to handle the new ways the builds would break.
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In retrospect, the fact that I came in knowing, like, HTML and very little else and they handed me the server keys for quite a large tech consultancy's websites and were like "Eh, go for it, kid," was indicative of The Times.
I'd literally never worked on a Windows machine and two weeks later I was administering the NT servers and then I led a redesign and built out a new CMS and then moved us to a new hosting company to save money and like…what a fundamentally hilarious series of events??
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Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿replied to Erin Kissane last edited by
@kissane I gather you're using Ghost's service? In which case you might be able to use Matamo (as a more venerable #FOSS analytics option than Plausible). If you were hosting it yourself, the easy thing would be to use GoAccess (https://goaccess.io/) to create reports from your webserver logs. Doubt you can do that on the Ghost service, though.
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@Jackson actual scream
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@kissane My first job web job I was theoretically an "Editor" or "Producer" depending on the latest reorg. I faked a CMS by connecting Access to the site database and making clunky GUI inputs out of SQL queries.
This was at a high profile content startup that was independently operating the websites for multiple cable and broadcast networks, among other clients. My qualifying work history? Five years of working in technical theatre and making sound designs.
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Erin Kissanereplied to Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 last edited by
@lightweight Yeah, no logs, but that looks doable! Tx!
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@theotherbrook Yessssssssss
The years when they had to bulk-hire the liberal arts kids were, in retrospect, amazing
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Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿replied to Erin Kissane last edited by
@kissane great! Does Ghost's service give you web server log data somehow?
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Erin Kissanereplied to Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 last edited by
@lightweight Nah, but if Tinylytics or GoatCounter don't work out, I think Matamo is an easy integration.
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@kissane
When I started in security, my boss pointed me at a couple of books to read in the month or so between getting hired and starting work, and then I was on-site at Microsoft doing code audits. And like, sure, I had part of a CS degree at that point, but for real it was just like, fuck around and learn it from first principles on the job. -
@dymaxion Yep! Everyone I knew with any CS classwork at all got snapped up into higher-paying work they were totally unready for and then they had to hire all the liberal arts majors for everything else.
I got a referral bonus when my employer hired my partner and we took all our also-baby friends out for dinner about once a week. A year or so later, the layoffs hit. And this is how I can spot a gold rush a mile away!
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@kissane My very first gig out of school involved getting handed admin rights to the server that ran the company’s nascent “web store”, and informed I would be learning “coldfusion” and something called “sql”
my honors thesis was, and i cannot stress this enough, a study of three works by milton
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@beep COLDFUSION
(my thesis was a science fiction novella/cutup based on a foundational Korean folktale with diagrams of eyeballs in it so uh, cheers to us)
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@kissane I get a lot of mileage by running grep and awk and so on over my log files.
