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== Tracking == | == Tracking == | ||
* Meta-bug | * Meta-bug: {{bug|942279}} | ||
== Goals == | == Goals == | ||
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== What data? == | == What data? == | ||
=== General usage patterns === | |||
* Need a session for each "screen" in order to facilitate heatmapping etc. | |||
* How are people opening Firefox? | |||
** [how] Different telemetry session types — allows for partitioning behaviors between these usage types. | |||
** Tapping Firefox icon on Android homescreen | |||
** Link from another app | |||
** Android Homescreen bookmark | |||
* How often are people opening (focusing) Firefox? | |||
* Duration of each browsing session? | |||
** Number of pages visited | |||
** Number of tabs open | |||
*** On restore! | |||
* [P1] What are people doing? | |||
** How are users getting to a page? | |||
*** Searching | |||
**** Breakdown of providers used | |||
**** Are they using suggestions? | |||
*** Typing URLs | |||
*** Retrieving Saved Stuff from Home | |||
**** which parts? | |||
*** Coming in from an outside link | |||
*** Tapping: row, thumbnail/top site | |||
** How are users saving stuff? + bounce time, if applicable | |||
*** Bookmarking | |||
*** Sharing | |||
*** Opening in new tab | |||
*** Adding to reading list | |||
** How are tabs used? | |||
*** Comparison? | |||
**** Actively switching through tabs in a "short" session | |||
***** More tab switching events than tabs | |||
***** Tab switching interspersed (or not) by other events (loading page) | |||
***** Also keep track of re-opened tabs | |||
**** Read later? | |||
**** Do they just collect over time? | |||
***** Tab lifetime between sessions? | |||
*** Amount of effort spent in typing | |||
**** Searches | |||
**** URLs | |||
**** Other web inputs — in content | |||
*** Device orientation (landscape vs portrait) | |||
*** Methods of exiting Firefox (home, closing tab, etc). | |||
** Relative popularity of Private / Guest Browsing | |||
*** For detailed recording within: [privacy-review-needed] | |||
** Extent to which people customize the browser | |||
*** In Settings | |||
*** with Add-ons | |||
* Heatmap of browser UI usage | |||
** Context of what to overlay heatmap on | |||
** Are we prioritizing the right stuff? | |||
* How does this differ on phones vs. tablets? | |||
== Technical details == | == Technical details == | ||
{{bug|932092}} ships in Firefox 28, and allows for UI code to record telemetry events for analysis. | |||
Canonical documentation lives here (though bear in mind that m-c is usually behind fx-team by a day): | |||
https://ci.mozilla.org/job/mozilla-central-docs/Tree_Documentation/fennec/index.html | |||
which is rendered from | |||
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/file/default/mobile/android/base/docs/index.rst | |||
== Processing == | |||
We use the same MapReduce infrastructure as desktop to get answers out of our measurements. If you are looking to run a job or write a new one, all of our MapReduce jobs and how to use them are in this github repo: https://github.com/gerfuls/fennec-telemetry | |||
== Research/references == | == Research/references == | ||
'''Note:''' Make sure Insights & Metrics teams are aware of what we're hoping to do once we have this a bit more solidly defined. | |||
An etherpad that needs a lot of work: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/FxATelemetry | |||
== UX design == | == UX design == | ||