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.
