Discovery

Web analytics on your developer web pages can tell you which pages send the most traffic to your site and how easy it is for customers to find their way around and use the information you give them. The following diagram shows the metrics that you can use to measure the discoverability of your APIs:

Figure 11.3 – Product metrics to measure the discoverability of your APIs

In the sections that follow, you will learn more about the different metrics that measure different parts of how easy it is to find your APIs.

Unique visitors

Unique visitors on your developer site are counted as any users who have visited your site for the first time and will not be recounted if they visit again. Most web analytics tools, such as Google Analytics and Heap Analytics, provide the ability to get unique visitor counts for any web page as a starting point for web analytics.

Unique visitor counts can help you figure out whether your site is interesting...