Classification inconsistencies in Analytics category

[andydavies]

@patrickhulce I've been looking at a adding the other RUM products as per https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/who-are-the-top-rum-analytics-providers/15/25 but notices inconsistencies in the way some of the existing products are classified.

Some RUM scripts (SpeedCurve, mPulse) are classified as analytics, others (AppDynamics, New Relic and RayGun) are classified utilities and they all really belong in the same category.

As a separate thought I also wonder if the analytics category is too wide – GA, Yandex Metrica etc. are very different to FullStory, HotJar, Decibel Insight etc. which are very different to RUM products (at least in their current implementations) – but can see issues with creating extra categories, has here been any thoughts on sub-categories?

[patrickhulce]

Yes we definitely dont want more top-level categories. I can see an argument for some of these being included in both analytica and utilities.

We would love subcategories (see discussion in #55) but its a large effort to recategorize every entity and would require an upfront taxonomy.

Do you have a proposal for a new master set of subcategories?

[andydavies]

Happy to propose a new master set of subcategories but it'll take me a while as I'm planning on taking August off ATM

I think I agree with @rockeynebhwani in #55 that experimentation is probably a separate category to analytics, though there are blurry lines.