Brendan Gregg

Thanks Rikki, I think I get it now -- those metrics (page views, etc) are intended for the _writers_, hence writers email list. I'm guessing there's a different set of metrics for the business, once that are aligned with the business. I was conflating the two. It might be interesting to discuss what the business metrics would be, as an example of metrics that matter to back up the article, but I'm not expecting to, since I presume that would be confidential.

The irony is that opensource.com is publishes the most vanity metrics at the highest frequency I know of. Every week I'm sent stats for: page views, page views from search, monthly page views (to date), comments, facebook, twitter. Metrics like those -- measuring views -- can be aligned with the business, if the business is making money from Google adwords. But I don't think that's Red Hat's real business. So why do you care so much? And do you care more about page views than, say, finding articles of quality? Note that among the metrics, time on site isn't one of them -- which would be a rough measure of quality, if people are spending time to read the articles... Back to this article -- what metrics would be better aligned with Red Hat's business? (Perhaps they _are_ collected, but not sent to the mailing list.)