FriendsOfFlarum Analytics - tracking user visits

girefko

Jishnu Having the same issue, but seems to work even with G-XXXX

Jishnu

girefko yes it works

luceos

almalino that was a temporary bug. The helper should now report things differently. Sorry for the confusion.

Hari

Could someone guide me in configuring google ads conversion tracking

chamath mainly the Start a Discussion and Post Discussion

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/6162-event-tracking-for-google-analytics

does this flarum event tracking extension still work? https://github.com/SurfEdge/flarum-ext-event-tracking

yuanqiangwang

matomo：
Refused to display 'https://www.*****.com:9000/' in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'deny'.

[General]
enable_framed_pages=1

无效

r4nchy

clarkwinkelmann

r4nchy I have not studied the changes yet. Do you know whether it requires modifications to the javascript we embed in the extension?

girefko

Hello, I would like to report a bug. I have disabled all extension and discovered that this extension is causing errors in my website:

Console:

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sw:57 Uncaught ReferenceError: fetchEvent is not defined
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sw:57 Uncaught ReferenceError: fetchEvent is not defined
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sw:57 Uncaught ReferenceError: fetchEvent is not defined
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sw:57 Uncaught ReferenceError: fetchEvent is not defined
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sw:57 Uncaught ReferenceError: fetchEvent is not defined
    at sw:57:18
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sw:57 Uncaught ReferenceError: fetchEvent is not defined
    at sw:57:18
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sw:57 Uncaught ReferenceError: fetchEvent is not defined
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sw:57 Uncaught ReferenceError: fetchEvent is not defined
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clarkwinkelmann

girefko that code is not in this extension, nor it is in Flarum core. The sw: reference means it comes from a service worker I believe. This extension doesn't use service workers.

Wasn't it a PWA extension issue? You might need to clear your browser cache and storage after removing that extension because a service worker won't uninstall itself automatically.

girefko

clarkwinkelmann You are right.. I was using Chrome all along and no matter what I did - the error would not go away. I then switched to Firefox and the error disappeared.

MikeJones

Does this work with Google Analytics 4 ?

luceos

MikeJones I honestly don't know, does it?

Gatsu

MikeJones For me doesnt work.
Have you solved it?

MikeJones

luceos So you are saying I should be the sacrificial lamb 😆

I can possibly try tomorrow morning at the start of the new month....

MikeJones

@luceos after some investigation it looks liek its close but not fully there. The Javascritp Google Analytics 4 gives is

<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-personalCodeGoesHere"></script>
<script>
  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
  gtag('js', new Date());

  gtag('config', 'G-personalCodeGoesHere');
</script>

Looking at my own page source it looks like using this in the current state it is just missign this line:

gtag('config', 'G-personalCodeGoesHere');

No idea how much that one line matters... but may need to be added for this extension to work with the new Google Analytics 4.

MikeJones

Gatsu I think this extension needs to be updated. I added what I believe needs to be changed in my previous comment.

Just need someone from the FOF team to take a look and update.

Tobi

GA4 is not tracking, needs to be updated

MikeJones

Tobi mine looks like it's reporting. But I do believe updates are needed

davwheat

1.1.0

This extension should have supported GA4 out of the box, since none of the syntax used by this extension differs between UA and GA4.

If you have issues with page view reporting, make sure that your web data stream has Enhanced measurement enabled, and that Page views are configured with the Page changes based on browser history events option enabled.

Changes

Explicitly address GA4 compatibility
- Using GA4 will not manually report page views to Google Analytics, like was done for UA
- Please note, this means that instead of a page_path property on your page_view events, the full URL will be contained in the page_location property
Pass user IDs to Google Analytics for user-based tracking between devices, sessions and accounts

Updating

composer require fof/analytics:"*"
php flarum cache:clear

Checking configuration

If you use GA4, you can check everything is running smoothly by checking the DevTools network tab. This should show pings to collect?v=2&.... Clicking on one of these, then checking the Payload tab should show...

tid matching your G-... tracking ID
dl matching the page you visited
dr matching the page you just moved from
uid matching your Flarum user ID
...and various other tracking properties

jdoe

dumb question - but will this work for self hosted site with no public IP/DNS (behind NAT)?

clarkwinkelmann

jdoe the tracking happens entirely client-side. The way the website is hosted shouldn't matter. The current browser URL is the one that will be sent to Google Analytics or Matomo. The only IP address that matters here is the user IP which will be recorded automatically by Google or Matomo from the request it receives. Server never sends any request to Google or Matomo, and Google/Matomo never sends requests to Flarum either, so the forum hostname doesn't need to be reachable from the global internet.

If both Flarum and Matomo are used inside of a private intranet, Matomo will likely log the user IP from inside the intranet, depending on how you configured the Matomo server. If the analytics server is outside of the intranet, it will likely log the same public IP for all users inside the intranet.

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