The Docs Community would like to run a 30-day trial of the hosted version for https://docs.python.org. This would let us know how many page views we’d get, so we can see at what pricing level we’d need for paid hosting, and whether to consider self-hosting.
Are there any objections to a 30-day trial?
If not, I’ll next run this past the steering council.
I’ve been using the public docs analytics on Plausible recently, and noticed there’s now a 404 error. Just wanted to check if it’s intentional that the analytics are no longer publicly-accessible?
I’ve found it helpful to understand which devices / OS / browser Python developers are using, what docs are popular, and where in the world Python devs are. See What we can learn from Python docs analytics as a practical example. There are other sources of information on those topics but they tend to be more biased.
We didn’t migrate to self-hosting to subvert blocklists, we did it to save money. People have the right to take measures beyond DNT (which plausible.io as well as our instance respect) if they so choose.
And that blocklist also blocks the main Plausible site, so self-hosting makes no difference. I guess they can still see the docs, we’re only losing out on a visitor count.
