FriendsOfFlarum Analytics - tracking user visits

clarkwinkelmann

chawki Dashboard is Matomo(Piwik) only. See above messages about the same question for details 😉

nitaaikumar

@santiagobiali and all those are maintaining this extension, a very big thanks. It works so perfectly with piwik. Every single discussion visited can be seen in real-time, whether it is by guests or signed in members with their usernames. I can't thank you all enough. Flarum community rocks! There is no one like you all online. You guys have virtually thought of every feature possible through your extensions. It is not easy to find extensions so perfect and fast like these even in premium forum communities like xenforo, phpbb, etc. Maybe because the core developers of Flarum have made it so easy to make extensions in the first place and especially without them perceivably slowing down the forums at all. Kudos again to all!

tolgaaaltas

Yandex.Metrica support would be awesome! In my opinion, Metrica has better UI and UX than Google Analytics. G Analytics's UI, UX, settings and results are very complicated.

nitaaikumar

I am slowly becoming pretty sure for some reason Matomo is not showing all my visits with this extension. The discussion view counts are increasing and users are replying in a discussion also, but I don't see them even in the detailed Visits log. Not so many but missing out quite a considerable number of visitors are not seen. Could it be the cache of Flarum or the Matomo code not being injected on every page load or some problem with Matomo tracking itself, I am not able to figure out. Thanks.

clarkwinkelmann

nitaaikumar can you check the browser network tab and/or your access logs to confirm if requests to the analytics script are made or not ? Also do you have many hits for the homepage and not for other pages, or just few hits globally ?

Browsers are also increasingly blocking trackers by default, so it could be that that prevents recording users. I have not done much testing but I'm pretty sure both Chrome and Firefox now aggressively block things in their default configuration. Also Piwik has an option to ignore people with the "do not track" flag, if you have enabled that option, you might get fewer and fewer hits as time goes by.

therealsujitk

Does this still work? I tried installing and this happened:

Using version ^0.8.0 for flagrow/flarum-ext-analytics
./composer.json has been updated
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Killed

Doesn't work with Bazzar either. Just thought I'd let you know, I added the code to "Header Code" under Appearance and it works, so I won't be needing this.

rob006

therealsujitk Killed

This is probably result of insufficient resources on server where you run this command. You probably need more RAM on this host (or run this command locally and install dependencies on server from composer.lock).

clarkwinkelmann

therealsujitk this is an issue with Composer and your setup and is not related to the individual extension you're trying to install. Feel free to open a new support discussion if you need help with it.

To add to rob006 answer, it might also be caused by a limited execution time for PHP scripts. It can usually be customized.

therealsujitk

clarkwinkelmann I actually made a small change to the composer.json file in the flarum directory and forgot to change it back. Due to this nothing could get installed. I tried installing this extension at first using Bazzar and it failed but I didn't know why at the time. I'm guessing once an installation fails it keeps trying to install it after because after I corrected the composer.json file the next day this extension mysteriously appeared on my site. This could have been the reason (Bazzar kept trying to install the extension) for the RAM usage because after this I was able to install extensions normally again.

Kurtis

@santiagobiali clarkwinkelmann

It seems this extension doesn't support Flarum 0.1.0 beta-12, as I got warning like this, is there any solution that I can integrate google analytics? As it is really important to know traffic details. Thanks!

Using version ^0.8.0 for flagrow/flarum-ext-analytics
./composer.json has been created
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - Installation request for flagrow/flarum-ext-analytics ^0.8.0 -> satisfiable by flagrow/flarum-ext-analytics[0.8.0].
    - flagrow/flarum-ext-analytics 0.8.0 requires flarum/core ^0.1.0-beta.8 -> satisfiable by flarum/core[0.1.x-dev, v0.1.0-beta.10, v0.1.0-beta.11, v0.1.0-beta.11.1, v0.1.0-beta.12, v0.1.0-beta.8, v0.1.0-beta.8.1, v0.1.0-beta.8.2, v0.1.0-beta.9] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.


Installation failed, deleting ./composer.json.
baseos | u871-h78zx3sxaq9m@giow1055.siteground.us:/home/customer/www/domain.com/public_html$ 
baseos | u871-h78zx3sxaq9m@giow1055.siteground.us:/home/customer/www/domain.com/public_html$

luceos

Kurtis are you in the correct directory? Do you see a file named flarum?

Kurtis

luceos

Great! It works! Yes, I made a mistake on /public_html, when install it under flarum, it works! Thank you!

Buffer

Thank you for the extension.
There is nothing on my dashboard there is no tab!!? I entered my track id but nothing is there
Flarum beta12.

clarkwinkelmann

Buffer if you are referring to the Matomo tab, it's only for Matomo and only if you filled the Matomo token in the extension settings. it's no different from visiting the Matomo dashboard directly.

Buffer

clarkwinkelmann Yeah! Unfortunately, Matomo is not a free service it is very expensive more than my VPS cost, also my google analytics shows nothing with no visitors at all.

tankerkiller125

Buffer Matomo is open source so you can host it yourself if you want. Regarding the new visitors part your visitors may be using something like adblock or Firefoxes built in tracking blocker which would make it impossible for google analytics to work properly.

danielunited

Does it just embed Analytics in Flarum, or actually send more events than if you put the script inside the <head></head>?

luceos

danielunited it's really a rudimentary implementation, PR's are welcomed to improve that though.

clarkwinkelmann

danielunited or actually send more events than if you put the script inside the <head></head>?

Yes it does. It tracks page changes inside of the single page app https://github.com/FriendsOfFlarum/analytics/blob/master/js/src/forum/index.js

Also with Matomo you can choose to track user identifiers so visits are grouped by username or email in Matomo.

bopersty

Hi guys,
How to check if GA tracking ID is exposured correctly by this addon? I see no active users in GA console.

tankerkiller125

bopersty If you open the browser console (F12) you should see some calls to Google Analytics servers to get the JS. However it's important to note that many people now use tracking protection to prevent analytics software from working properly and some browsers even enable tracking protection by default. Further people who use adblockers might also not appear in the analytics as many adblockers are also blocking google analytics.

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