Which doc page leads to the most API adoption?

Why this matters

Devtools live on docs. Your /docs/quickstart is read more than your homepage. Your /docs/auth decides whether someone makes their first successful call. Your /docs/webhooks decides whether they integrate beyond the demo.

Yet most teams treat docs analytics as “page views” — total bytes shipped, no funnel attached. The question that matters is: which doc page drives the most first-API-calls within a week? That’s the highest-leverage page in your entire content strategy.

Agentry has both events in one table — docs page views and API requests — both keyed by distinct_id. The funnel takes one prompt. The answer reshapes your content roadmap.

What you get

• Per-doc-page funnel: views → first API call within 7 days
• Ranked by conversion rate so you see what works
• The list of doc pages with high views but low conversion (= rewrite candidates)
• A published dashboard for content/devrel weekly review

Walk through it

agentry_analytics_query {
  project_id: "default",
  query: "
    with doc_visits as (
      select
        distinct_id,
        properties.path as path,
        min(timestamp) as first_view
      from events
      where event = 'page_view'
        and properties.path like '/docs/%'
        and timestamp > now() - interval 30 day
      group by distinct_id, path
    ),
    first_api_call as (
      select distinct_id, min(timestamp) as first_call_ts
      from events
      where event = 'api_request'
      group by distinct_id
    )
    select
      dv.path,
      count(distinct dv.distinct_id) as viewers,
      countIf(fac.first_call_ts > dv.first_view
              and fac.first_call_ts < dv.first_view + interval 7 day) as converters,
      countIf(fac.first_call_ts > dv.first_view
              and fac.first_call_ts < dv.first_view + interval 7 day) * 1.0
       / count(distinct dv.distinct_id) as conv_rate
    from doc_visits dv
    left join first_api_call fac using (distinct_id)
    group by dv.path
    having viewers >= 100
    order by conv_rate desc
    limit 20
  "
}

{
  "rows": [
    { "path": "/docs/quickstart",        "viewers": 12400, "converters": 4216, "conv_rate": 0.340 },
    { "path": "/docs/auth",              "viewers":  8200, "converters": 2542, "conv_rate": 0.310 },
    { "path": "/docs/sdks/javascript",   "viewers":  6800, "converters": 2040, "conv_rate": 0.300 },
    { "path": "/docs/sdks/python",       "viewers":  4200, "converters": 1218, "conv_rate": 0.290 },
    { "path": "/docs/webhooks",          "viewers":  3100, "converters":  806, "conv_rate": 0.260 },
    { "path": "/docs/api-reference",     "viewers": 18400, "converters": 4232, "conv_rate": 0.230 },
    { "path": "/docs/examples",          "viewers":  2200, "converters":  330, "conv_rate": 0.150 },
    { "path": "/docs/changelog",         "viewers": 14200, "converters":  710, "conv_rate": 0.050 },
    { "path": "/docs/pricing",           "viewers":  9800, "converters":  392, "conv_rate": 0.040 }
  ]
}

agentry_publish_query {
  recipe_id: "raw_hogql",
  description: "Docs → first API call funnel (30d)",
  params: { query: "<same query above>" }
}

{ "publication_id": "pub_docs_fun", "public_url": "https://agentry.sh/q/pub_docs_fun?key=agp_…" }

The output

Docs → first API call funnel (30d, 7-day attribution window)

Path                          Viewers   Converters   Conv %    Action
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
/docs/quickstart              12,400      4,216      34.0%    ★ promote
/docs/auth                     8,200      2,542      31.0%
/docs/sdks/javascript          6,800      2,040      30.0%
/docs/sdks/python              4,200      1,218      29.0%
/docs/webhooks                 3,100        806      26.0%
/docs/api-reference           18,400      4,232      23.0%    high vol low conv
/docs/examples                 2,200        330      15.0%    ★ rewrite
/docs/changelog               14,200        710       5.0%    informational
/docs/pricing                  9,800        392       4.0%    pre-purchase

Recommendations:
  - Default landing /docs → /docs/quickstart
  - Rewrite /docs/examples (15% conv vs sibling 30%)
  - Per-source attribution: which channels send quickstart traffic?

Public dashboard:
  https://agentry.sh/q/pub_docs_fun?key=agp_xxx

Setting it up

The trick is the distinct_id bridge between “docs visitor” and “API user.” Three common patterns:

Pattern A: Logged-in docs. Your docs site requires sign-in (or has an optional sign-in for personalized examples). Use the same user id for the docs distinct_id and the API customer_id:

<script>
// In your docs site
window.distinct_id = "{{ user.email }}";  // or visitor cookie if anonymous
fetch(`https://api.agentry.sh/v1/analytics/${PROJECT_ID}/`, {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": `Bearer ${DSN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "User-Agent": "docs-site/1.0",  // REQUIRED — Cloudflare 403s default UAs
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    event: "page_view",
    distinct_id: window.distinct_id,
    properties: { path: location.pathname, referrer: document.referrer },
  }),
});
</script>

Pattern B: API key as the bridge. The developer copies a key from docs to their code. Encode the docs-visitor cookie id in the metadata of the API key they create (or use the key’s hash itself):

// API middleware
const apiKey = c.req.header("authorization")?.replace(/^Bearer /, "");
const customer = await resolveCustomer(apiKey);
const docsCookie = customer.metadata.docs_visitor_id;  // populated when they made the key

fetch(`/v1/analytics/...`, {
  // ...
  body: JSON.stringify({
    event: "api_request",
    distinct_id: docsCookie ?? customer.id,
    properties: { customer_id: customer.id, endpoint: c.req.routePath },
  }),
});

Pattern C: Both events use a cookie set by docs. The dev clicks “try it in the playground” on docs — that calls your API with the docs cookie attached as a header. From there both events share the cookie id.

Variations

• “Same funnel but conversion = api_request_succeeded (2xx response). ‘Made any call’ counts 4xx fumbles — first-success is the real signal.”
• “Per-language: visitors of /docs/sdks/python who made a Python SDK call within 7 days vs visitors of /docs/sdks/javascript who made a JS call. Language-specific conversion.”
• “Same funnel from search-engine referrers only. Are SEO-arriving devs converting at the same rate as direct?”
• “Conversion by docs-page time-on-page bucket. Do quick scanners convert at the same rate as long readers?”