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[mattstauffer]

I think view count would be the easiest way to start. Hook into the Google Analytics API and just provide some information about most viewed posts in the last ___.

Cool idea.

[Hermannovich]

Hi @adamwathan and @mattstauffer I'm trying to implemented that functionnality, but I don't see how to test it locally, can you give me some hints please ?

[mattstauffer]

@Hermannovich That's a great question!

Since we're already relying on the JavaScript Google Analytics push--and since that's faster than doing a server-side push--it seems like it'll be tough to accurately test that.

My guess is that we instead take a look at our Google Analytics and make sure we know whether there's any diversity in the data--e.g. Do we get two separate page references for "gistlog.co/user/post" and "gistlog.co/user/post/"?-- and then make a stub that represents all the different cases we're expecting to get back from our data... we build a Google Analytics client that we use to read our data... and then in our tests we mock that client using the stub.

[mattstauffer]

Current plan:

• Write a custom JS that feels very similar to the GA script
• That custom JS will ping a local route
• The local route will push the data up to GA via server push

This way we can get more accurate data, without introducing higher load times, in a way that will work even if we add whole-page caching down the road.

Additionally, we can scrape out only the data we care about, therefore limiting Google's ability to collect personal information.

From there, we can then build a really rudimentary local tool that interacts with Google Analytics' API via the Google SDK and can answer simple questions for us:

• How many views were there on any URL in the last ___ days
• What were the the top 10 URLs visited in the last ___ days, and how many page views did they get?

I think that alone merits a PR. From there we can work on design and planning for a trending gistlogs page, and decide what math we would want to use to understand "trending" (vs. just "lots of visits").

[ashvinichilbule]

I want to contribute to the issue please assigned it to me