Easily integrate Plausible Analytics into your Neos site.
Plausible is a lightweight and open-source website analytics tool. It doesn't use cookies and is fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and PECR. This plugin is meant to remove all friction from adding the Plausible Analytics tracking script code to your Neos site. All you need to do is define your Plausible domain in your Neos Settings.yaml
file.
- Multi-site compatibility
- Backend module
- Check if the requested domain matches the defined domain to track
- Enabled per default only on
Production
environment - Embed stats directly into the Neos Backend
- Proxies the needed JS files (cached for 6 hours) and API from Plausible
If you run a multi-site setup, we got you covered! You can set different trackings for the sites based on the root node name.
This package adds a backend module to your Neos instance, which helps check your configuration and opt-out your browser for tracking.
If a backend user is not an administrator, he'll get a different view:
It also checks if the resulting javascript path doesn't return a 404 error:
This package contains two mixins:
- Carbon.Plausible:Mixin.CustomEvent: This allows you to set custom events to a document via the inspector. Of course, you can do this also directly in your JavaScript or Fusion
- Carbon.Plausible:Mixin.DoNotTrack: This allows you to disable the tracking for a specific document
By default, Plausible Analytics tracks every visitor to your website. When you're working on your site, you might not want to record your own visits and page views. To prevent counting your visits, you can set a special localStorage flag in the browser. Here's how.
- Go to
your-domain.tld/~/disable-tracking
. This sets the flag and redirects the visitor to the homepage. Great for people without access to the Neos Backend. - As an Editor, you can enable/disable the flag also in the Plausible management module:
your-domain.tld/neos/management/plausible
- Add the component Carbon.Plausible:Component.Toggle to a document and click the button.
- You can do this also by yourself by following the excluding guide on plausible.io
To use this feature, you have to enable the dataAnalyticsTracking
setting. Register events in the HTML with the use of an attribute tag data-analytics
.
Note: Watch your quotes! Especially in the props as we want to be able to create an object.
<!-- Tracking a form -->
<form>
...
<button type="submit" data-analytics='"Contact"'>Send Message...</button>
</form>
<!-- Tracking a link -->
<a
href="/register"
data-analytics='"Register", {"props":{"plan":"Navigation"}}'
>
Register
</a>
Run the following command in your site package
composer require --no-update carbon/plausible
Then run composer update
in your project root.
If you have a single site setup, you can adjust the configuration under the key Carbon.Plausible.default
in your Settings.yaml
:
Key | Default | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|
domain |
null |
string |
Set here the plausible domain. This setting is required |
reverseProxy |
true |
bool |
Proxies the needed Javascript (cached for 6 hours) and API calls from Plausible. |
sharedLink |
null |
string |
If you have opened up your website stats to the public or created a private and secure link, enter it to enable the embedded view of the stats in the backend |
customEvents |
false |
string|bool |
If you want to set custom events in your javascript, set this to true or a string. If set to a string, this whole string gets included on every document. If you set custom events via Fusion or the Carbon.Plausible:Mixin.CustomEvent mixin, you don't have to set it to true . The snippet gets activated automatically if needed. The inline javascript get's minified with JShrink |
dataAnalyticsTracking |
false |
bool |
If you want to enable data-analytics for tracking links and form submits set this to true |
hashBasedRouting |
false |
bool |
Automatically follow frontend navigation when using hash-based routing |
outboundLinks |
false |
bool |
Automatically track clicks on outbound links from your website |
fileDownloads |
false |
bool|string|array |
Automatically track file downloads |
taggedEvents |
false |
bool |
Allows you to track standard custom events such as link clicks, form submits, and any other HTML element clicks |
revenue |
false |
bool |
Allows you to assign dynamic monetary values to goals and custom events to track revenue attribution |
compat |
false |
bool |
Compatibility mode for tracking users on Internet Explorer |
local |
false |
bool |
Allow analytics to track on localhost too which is useful in hybrid apps |
manual |
false |
bool |
Don't trigger pageviews automatically. Also allows you to specify custom locations to redact URLs with identifiers. You can also use it to track custom query parameters |
pageviewProps |
null |
array |
With pageviewProps you can attach custom properties (also known as custom dimensions in Google Analytics) sending a pageview in order to create custom metrics. |
Our "File Downloads Tracking" captures a file download event each time a link is clicked with a document, presentation, text file, compressed file, video, audio or other common file type. Both internal and external files downloads are tracked. These file extensions are tracked by default:
.pdf
, .xlsx
, .docx
, .txt
, .rtf
, .csv
, .exe
, .key
, .pps
, .ppt
, .pptx
, .7z
, .pkg
, .rar
, .gz
, .zip
, .avi
, .mov
, .mp4
, .mpeg
, .wmv
, .midi
, .mp3
, .wav
, .wma
You can also specify a custom list of file types to track if you set fileDownloads
to a string or an array. Say you only want to track .zip
and .pdf
files, you can use a snippet like this:
fileDownloads: 'zip,pdf'
or
fileDownloads:
- zip
- pdf
If you run multiple sites on one Neos installation, you can set this under the key Carbon.Plausible.sites
in your Settings.yaml
. Be aware that if you set one value in Carbon.Plausible.default
, these are set as the new fallback value. For example, if you set Carbon.Plausible.default.outboundLinks
to true
, is outboundLinks
set to true
per default for all sites. Of course, you can disable this again if you set this to false
on your site setting.
Example:
Carbon:
Plausible:
sites:
myfirstsite:
domain: domain.com
outboundLinks: true
sharedLink: https://plausible.io/share/domain.com?auth=abcdefghijklmnopqrstu
mysecondsite:
domain: domain.org
hashBasedRouting: true
sharedLink: https://plausible.io/domain.org
mythirdsite:
domain: domain.net
customEvent: "plausible('Download', {props: {method: 'HTTP'}})"
The key of the site (e.g. myfirstsite
) is the root node name found under Administration » Sites Management.
The main Fusion component is Carbon.Plausible:Component.TrackingCode. This component gets included into Neos.Neos:Page under the path plausibleTrackingCode
. So if you want to add a custom event to a ceratin document, you can do it like this:
prototype(Vendor.Site:Document.NotFound) < prototype(Neos.Neos:Page) {
plausibleTrackingCode.customEvents = 'plausible("404",{ props: { path: document.location.pathname } });'
}
With pageviewProps
you can attach custom properties (also known as custom dimensions in Google Analytics) sending a pageview in order to create custom metrics
You can add up to 30 custom properties alongside a pageview by adding multiple attributes:
prototype(Vendor.Site:Document.NotFound) < prototype(Neos.Neos:Page) {
plausibleTrackingCode.pageviewProps {
author = 'John Doe'
darkmode = true
}
}
Carbon.Plausible:Component.Toggle is a small component to let the user if he wants to opt-out from tracking.