Analyzing documentation performance

After a chapter of discussion on docs as code tools and practices, the tools for analysis are not particularly different from any other website. As I mentioned in Chapter 5, the trick with documentation is figuring out what you want to assess before choosing a tool.

Analytics tools

There are a lot of potential options for analytics, including Google Analytics (https://analytics.google.com/analytics), Matomo (https://matomo.org/), and Mixpanel (https://mixpanel.com/). And these are just the services I’ve used. Your hosting provider or tool (if you’re not following docs as code) may also provide other additional options. This isn’t a book on analytics setup. Each option would probably take at least a chapter to cover. Instead, I cover some general considerations when choosing and setting them up.

Almost all SSGs have variables in configuration by default or via a plugin for at least Google Analytics. The template takes...