Keeping track of Product Views through Anonymous Data

[Raj2503]

We can add the functionality to keep track of the views a certain product is getting, thereby providing us with essential information about which products are liked or generally bought by people.

Using this data, we can improve the Open Food Facts AI and create a section for Most Popular Products.

[monsieurtanuki]

As pointed out here, that should probably rather be done on the server side than on the client side.
In addition to that, I believe that the natural order of the results is the product popularity, but maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe a good reason to use Folksonomy, which is already implemented.

[Raj2503]

@monsieurtanuki thank you for the amazing insight.
It opened me up to a broader perspective of the problem.

Please correct me if I am wrong again, but I would suggest implementing Google Analytics APIs on the server-side for this purpose.
Google Analytics can really simplify the problem according to me.

It can prevent falsifying of data as pointed out here, as it doesn't record multiple Event API calls from the same user for a default Time Frame.

Also, it can track per product views using the Real-Time Reporting API, making it a lot easier to get started with Most Popular Section.

[M123-dev]

When I remember correctly there is already some kind of loose tracking of some metrics, but Open Food Facts has a big focus on privacy therefore I guess Google Analytics isn't in use.

But as monsieurtanuki already pointed out, this repository has nothing to do with tracking metrics but is just a wrapper around the OpenFoodFacts API. You'll probably get a better answer if you either ask in the server repository or even better on Slack

[monsieurtanuki]

Hi @Raj2503! As @M123-dev's just pointed out, that concerns rather the server side. I keep my energy for the flutter/dart side :)

[teolemon]

I'm closing, as we indeed already compute a popularity index server side, and have also a https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-monitoring repository