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.
FriendsOfFlarum Analytics - tracking user visits
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.
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.
Does it just embed Analytics in Flarum, or actually send more events than if you put the script inside the <head></head>?
danielunited it's really a rudimentary implementation, PR's are welcomed to improve that though.
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.
15 days later
Hi guys,
How to check if GA tracking ID is exposured correctly by this addon? I see no active users in GA console.
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.
It works, thank you. It was me checking the request with uBlock turned on.
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Hi guys, i just tried installing this and got the following errors:
`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.13, 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.`
is this compatible with the latest version of Flarum? (0.1.0-beta.12)
MartinJD you need to run the command inside of the Flarum directory (the directory that contains composer.json and config.php)
clarkwinkelmann Ugh, sorry. That was it. Thanks for the quick response!
5 days later
FriendsOfFlarum Hi, thank you for extension.
I have a problem, I don't see Analitycs page in my admin panel, why?
Gatsu extensions settings can be found in the extension settings modal. A page only appears if you provide a Matomo token, in which case that page will show an iframe with the Matomo admin panel.
clarkwinkelmann Hi, thank you!
Where find I matomo token?
Where do I insert the token?
In config I see only google code and piwik code ( I dont use it)
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Gatsu the placeholder text inside of the token field tells you where you can find the token in your Matomo dashboard.
Personally I never used this feature, I prefer to access the Matomo dashboard directly. This is just a simple iframe to the same page you get in Matomo.
Filling in the token has no other purpose outside of enabling the iframe. It's not a requirement.
Matomo is the new name of Piwik. The extension might still say Piwik, I haven't checked.
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@luceos clarkwinkelmann
installed analytics extension but its not showing in sidebar
DanielOX the admin panel tab only activates if you're using Matomo and only if you provide a Matomo API Key. It's just an iframe to the Matomo admin panel.
All settings are found in the settings modal. There are no other visible pages added by this extension.
clarkwinkelmann what is Matomo, i provided google analytics api key
DanielOX you will find your analytics in Google Dashboard.
Matomo is the other analytics software supported by this extension. Matomo can be self-hosted.