Re: [RFC] PHP.net analytics

On Sat, 2 Nov 2024, Jonathan Vollebregt wrote: > On 11/2/24 12:10 AM, Bob Weinand wrote: > > What percentage of users get to the docs through direct links vs the > > home page > > > > That's something you can generally infer from server logs - was the > > home page accessed from that IP right before another page was > > opened? It's not as accurate, but for a general understanding of > > orders of magnitude it's good enough. > > Even better: If we're talking about internal navigation you can check > the referrer header and know for sure, since the docs don't add > rel=noreferrer on links or anything. > > You shouldn't need server logs _or_ client side JS. A lot of this > tracking stuff could be done by just putting down a proxy or shim that > checks request headers. It looks like matomo offers exactly this via > matomo/matomo-php-tracker. > > I second bob's general sentiment: There's no need for client side > tracking. As the person that will end up having to maintain this, I wasn't aware that https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo-php-tracker is pretty much the same as the JS tracker. And as it does HTTPS requests from the PHP application to Matomo, instead of a JS tracker, this seems like a better solution, which is also more customisable. cheers, Derick -- https://derickrethans.nl | https://xdebug.org | https://dram.io Author of Xdebug. Like it? Consider supporting me: https://xdebug.org/support mastodon: @derickr@phpc.social @xdebug@phpc.social