User analytics

We have two ways of tracking user activity in Moped. Edit activities are tracked in the moped_activity_log table, and we also collect certain usage metrics, which are stored in the moped_user_events table.

User event data

There are currently two event types available:

• app_load - created whenever a user opens Moped in a browser tab, or when the user refreshes the page.

• dashboard_load - created whenever a user navigates to the Dashboard page

• projects_map_load - created whenever a user navigates to the Projects map page

• projects_saved_view - created whenever a user open the saved view modal in the projects list

It would be fairly easy to add additional event types. Ask a dev.

Querying event data

You can connect to the Moped Read Replica database and query usage metrics. For example, this query counts the number of events by user per day

SELECT
    events.user_id,
    first_name || ' ' || last_name AS person,
    created_at::date event_date,
    event_name,
    count(id)
FROM
    moped_user_events events
    LEFT JOIN moped_users u ON u.user_id = events.user_id
GROUP BY
    events.user_id,
    person,
    event_date,
    event_name
ORDER BY
    event_date DESC;

Activity log data

The activity log data can be queried to see user edit activities

Querying activity data

This query retrieves the number of edits by user by day

SELECT
    first_name || ' ' || last_name AS _name,
    count(activity_id) AS num_of_edits,
    created_at::date as edit_date
FROM
    moped_activity_log
    LEFT JOIN moped_users ON updated_by_user_id = user_id
WHERE
    created_at > '2023-11-01'
GROUP BY
    _name,
    edit_date
ORDER BY edit_date desc;