# Add Plausible Tracking to DjangoProject.com? **URL:** \ **Category:** Website\ **Created:** [October 10, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/add-plausible-tracking-to-djangoproject-com/35581 "2024-10-10T20:27:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wsvincent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/wsvincent/32/52_2.png) [@wsvincent](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/wsvincent)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/add-plausible-tracking-to-djangoproject-com/35581/1 "2024-10-10T20:27:48Z")
So I KNOW historically Django has been anti any sort of tracking. Heck, we don’t even have a list of users really, aside from Google Groups. But if the [PSF can use Plausible](https://plausible.io/docs.python.org) and use it to help understand the community better on [docs.python.org](http://docs.python.org), maybe we can too? Especially if/when the new website redesign comes out, having a little knowledge of the user base would help around international features, accessibility, and so on. ---
**Author:** ![pauloxnet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/pauloxnet/32/11021_2.png) [@pauloxnet](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/pauloxnet)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/add-plausible-tracking-to-djangoproject-com/35581/2 "2024-10-10T20:32:38Z")
I agree with you. Plausible track only aggregated data, don’t use any cookies and don’t require any GDPR dialog. ---
**Author:** ![jeff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/jeff/32/55_2.png) [@jeff](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/jeff)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/add-plausible-tracking-to-djangoproject-com/35581/3 "2024-10-10T20:34:25Z")
I thought the DSF used Fastly or Cloudflare? If that’s the case, I’m not sure if they need something like Plausible. ---
**Author:** ![pauloxnet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/pauloxnet/32/11021_2.png) [@pauloxnet](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/pauloxnet)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/add-plausible-tracking-to-djangoproject-com/35581/4 "2024-10-10T22:48:14Z")
An interesting comparative between Cloudfare and Plausible > **[Cloudflare Web Analytics vs Plausible Analytics](https://plausible.io/vs-cloudflare-web-analytics)** > > Here’s a look at Cloudflare Web Analytics and how it compares to Plausible Analytics and other analytics such as Google Analytics. ---
**Author:** ![wsvincent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/wsvincent/32/52_2.png) [@wsvincent](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/wsvincent)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/add-plausible-tracking-to-djangoproject-com/35581/5 "2024-10-10T23:48:18Z")
We use Fastly but I wasn’t aware of us using the analytics for it. Clearly we need a Django ops person to weigh in here! ---
**Author:** ![bmispelon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/bmispelon/32/38_2.png) [@bmispelon](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/bmispelon)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/add-plausible-tracking-to-djangoproject-com/35581/6 "2024-10-14T08:50:33Z")
Hello, your friendly ops person here 👋 What kind of information are you after exactly (hits per page, geographic distribution, …)? Also, would this be a oneoff thing, or is the idea to have this data public and updated (live?) somewhere? Personally, don’t have any opposition to adding Plausible and I don’t think it would be too challenging technically (famous last words 😁 ). However, I think it would be helpful to know the questions we’re trying to answer by adding analytics, rather than only saying “let’s have analytics”. ---
**Author:** ![wsvincent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/wsvincent/32/52_2.png) [@wsvincent](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/wsvincent)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 12:56am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/add-plausible-tracking-to-djangoproject-com/35581/7 "2024-10-16T00:56:31Z")
Hi Baptiste, Thanks for the thoughtful response. I agree we need to be more specific in what we’re looking for. My off-the-cuff response is it’d be nice to know more about users and the docs beyond what we currently have via the Django Developers Survey. So that would mean what you mentioned: - geographic distribution - hits per page - would be interesting to follow the funnels of traffic, like where do people go after Polls? How many people make it to the end of Polls, etc? But there should be an overriding question first before we just grab data. Maybe someone from the Translations team has insight here. My BIG, BIG wish (echoing @carlton here) is to one day have a Docs Fellow who can look at all the docs collectively and make changes. That person would definitely benefit from this information, but we’re a ways off from that at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![sarahboyce](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/sarahboyce/32/12734_2.png) [@sarahboyce](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/sarahboyce)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/add-plausible-tracking-to-djangoproject-com/35581/8 "2024-10-16T14:11:55Z")
I will tag @thibaudcolas and @priyapahwa as the chair and co-chair of the [DSF fundraising working group](https://github.com/django/dsf-working-groups/blob/main/active/fundraising.md) as I can see them finding this data useful. Some data around click through rate and views on the PyCharm banner, donations page, and sponsors pages could be useful in terms of tracking the effectiveness of the website (and then proposing updates) and give them stats they can tell prospective sponsors. If they were thinking of putting advertisements on the Django website, for example, this might help with those discussions. ---
**Author:** ![thibaudcolas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/thibaudcolas/32/3956_2.png) [@thibaudcolas](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/thibaudcolas)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 12:45am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/add-plausible-tracking-to-djangoproject-com/35581/9 "2024-10-17T00:45:49Z")
I love this idea! I’d love to get it running for about 2-4 weeks on all pages of [djangoproject.com](http://djangoproject.com) and [docs.djangoproject.com](http://docs.djangoproject.com) so we get a baseline level of information about users of those websites at this point in time. Then on an ongoing basis I’d prefer being able to turn the tracking on and off as needed to answer specific questions. Without the specific questions / kept on indefinitely, not keen on the extra internet bloat. ---
**Author:** ![thibaudcolas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/thibaudcolas/32/3956_2.png) [@thibaudcolas](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/thibaudcolas)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/add-plausible-tracking-to-djangoproject-com/35581/10 "2025-10-24T09:19:40Z")
We have a lot of ongoing work that could benefit a lot from site analytics, so I’ve decided to open an issue for this: [Site usage analytics #2288](https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/issues/2288). This reflects recent discussions with other volunteers on what options we have available. ---
**Author:** ![pauloxnet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/pauloxnet/32/11021_2.png) [@pauloxnet](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/pauloxnet)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 7:58am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/add-plausible-tracking-to-djangoproject-com/35581/11 "2025-10-28T07:58:35Z")
An alternative to Pausible with very similar features and also a free-plan for small website is Umami _( [GitHub - umami-software/umami: Umami is a modern, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.](https://github.com/umami-software/umami) )_ ---
**Author:** ![wsvincent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/wsvincent/32/52_2.png) [@wsvincent](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/wsvincent)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/add-plausible-tracking-to-djangoproject-com/35581/12 "2025-11-20T16:11:10Z")
There’s some more movement here over on GitHub: [Site usage analytics · Issue #2288 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub](https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/issues/2288#issuecomment-3558721714) It doesn’t seem like any real pushback against doing something here…. ---
**Author:** ![jeff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/jeff/32/55_2.png) [@jeff](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/add-plausible-tracking-to-djangoproject-com/35581/13 "2026-09-16T20:23:33Z")
Quick update. I found out today that the plausible tracking was merged and is now live on both [djangoproject.com](http://djangoproject.com) and [docs.djangoproject.com](http://docs.djangoproject.com) The PR that merged them is here: [Added Plausible analytics tracking. by sarahboyce · Pull Request #2823 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub](https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/2823) Thank you to everyone who submitted feedback, and thank you to everyone- ops, fellows, past directors, current directors, PSF staff for hosting, and everyone who contributed to suggest and get this completed!