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Oh god, yeah. I was happy to stop working at such a place. Leave. At one such company, no names, they had a rather large consumer facing website. I was told i
by donohoe 4y ago
Oh god, yeah. I was happy to stop working at such a place. Leave.
At one such company, no names, they had a rather large consumer facing website. I was told it had no analytics other than a homegrown solution (which was terrible). Then it turned out that had Google Analytics (Enterprise) but everyone had forgotten about it. They denied it at first, but I showed them screenshots of the Network tab in Chrome where it was pretty obvious. Suddenly I had access. So far this is 3 weeks or emails.
With access I realized the implementation was botched. All view states were being handled by a hash in the URL so all Page Views in GA were reported in one URL.
I requested a minor code tweak to account for this. I was told by the dev team it would take 6-8 weeks to implement such a change. I was assured this was rather complex and they'd need to free up people too to work on it so that could take longer.
I told them the code change was already written and I'd included it in the initial request. I referenced the template file within their system where they change would live and included tests. They still dragged their feet. It got completed in my last week. Copy/pasted exactly as I'd written it.
It was utter madness.
- itronitron 4y agoAm I correct in assuming that Google Analytics (Enterprise) still stores all the collected data on google's servers, or does the enterprise designation mean it's locally hosted?
- donohoe 4y agoYes - all stored with Google. Not locally hosted.
- will5421 4y agoSounds like those analytics weren’t important to the company.