Analytics

This page is historical in nature and documents features in prior releases (before 4.0.0). The 4.0.0 release removed all analytics.

To help improve the project and learn how its being used, I've added Analytics in hackertray. The --dnt switch disables all analytics so that you can opt-out if desired. All data is collected anonymously, with no machine id or user-identifying information being sent back.

You can take a look at hackertray/analytics.py file for the tracking code itself.

Data is collected using the Mixpanel service. This page will always contain an updated list of events that are being tracked, the reason behind it, and the data included by each event.

event	description	data	reason
launch	hackertray is started as an application	hackertray version, all command line arguments passed, linux distribution information, default browser name, current timestamp, mixpanel API version	Helps me understand the usage of hackertray, including distribution information. command line flags help in the same.
quit	quit event is triggered when the app is closed	current timestamp	understand the time-based usage of hackertray (when do hackers use it)
visit	when a URL is opened from the app, including the update and about urls	url visited, current timestamp	understand what do users do with hackertray, and when do they update it