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Hi,

i installed your plugin and can't get it work.

No matter production or dev-mode.

More Info:

• Matomo V4.5.0 - system check is OK
• I tested in production and local development
• Plugin options:
  siteId: 1,
  matomoUrl: https://xxxxxxx,
  siteUrl: https://www.xxxxxx.xx,
  // localScript: /piwik.js, <<< also tested
  exclude: ['/abc/'],
  requireConsent: false,
  requireCookieConsent: false,
  disableCookies: true,
  respectDnt: false,
  dev: true

I hope you can find time to help.

Best regards

Hey there,

I'm using gatsby-plugin-matomo 0.8.3 and it's working perfectly (thanks!) for regular navigation on the page. The page also offers downloads (linked to static files) like this:

<a href="/static/somefile.zip" download="">Download</a>

Unfortunately, the downloads are not shown in the Matomo dashboard. Is there anything else to setup to get this working?

Thanks!

Currently, every page load is preceded by a JavaScript event in Matomo. So even if a user visits just one page, two events are recorded. This is a severe issue, as it eliminates all bounces. A bounce has just a single action. Because there is no single action, there are no bounces, which falsifies all statistics.

I see in your docs, that there is an option "trackLoad", but it doesn't seem to be implemented. Maybe you meant to use:

    if (first && trackLoad) {
    }

on line 56 of your gatsby-browser.js file.

In my opinion, the load tracking event should be removed completely.

The devDependency release-it was updated from 10.0.7 to 10.0.8.

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This version is covered by your current version range and after updating it in your project the build failed.

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Hey there.

This is a tall ask, so feel free to close the issue if you're not sure, but I'm hopeful that someone else may have experienced this issue & knows a remedy or understands why there is a discrepancy.

Since migrating our site to Gatsby & using this plugin, we've experienced significant shifts in traffic attribution by channel (despite overall visits remaining flat). We've seen sharp drops in SEO & referral traffic with a corresponding spike in Direct Entry.

Here's a view of SEO vs. Direct Entry:

Here's a view of website referrals vs. Direct Entry:

Does anyone have any ideas on why this plugin results in decreased channel attribution? You can view our configuration for the plugin here.

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

The following code of this plugin is based on code from gatsby-plugin-google-analytics:

    // Minimum delay for reactHelmet's requestAnimationFrame
    const delay = Math.max(32, 0)
    setTimeout(sendPageView, delay)

In browsers with a refresh rate higher than 60, this can lead to a bug (where the wrong title is sent).

You can find more information in the issue I have created for gatsby-plugin-google-analytics:

gatsby-plugin-google-analytics: sendPageView should be called via requestAnimationFrame, when available #28591

Hey,

I'm using gatsby-plugin-matomo and it's working perfectly.

do you think it would be possible that the exclude option could be a regex? for example to exclude everything that starts with a path or everything that does not start with a path ?

Thanks!

@kremalicious

When navigating, the page title is not correctly set in Matomo, the pathname is sent instead.

I'm using React Helmet to set my title, so the question is: is the title already updated when onRouteUpdate is called? If yes, maybe we could get the document title and it should be good for every usecase.

Hey there!

Could you please add support for error tracking?
https://matomo.org/faq/how-to/how-do-i-enable-basic-javascript-error-tracking-and-reporting-in-matomo-browser-console-error-messages/

I think ideally it would just be an additional boolean option, e.g. enableErrorTracking:
https://github.com/kremalicious/gatsby-plugin-matomo#options

If enableErrorTracking is true, we could add _paq.push(['enableJSErrorTracking']);

The following code results in an event being tracked for every visit to a website or app:

Unfortunately with the javascript load duration event being tracked in Matomo, the "Actions in visit" are more than one and causes all of these visits to no longer count as "Bounced" even if the visitor didn't interact with the page and left without taking any further action. This can heavily skew the reports in Matomo by not accurately showing the actual bounce rate of visitors to a website or web page.

Matomo 4 includes advanced Page Performance reporting which may make these javascript load duration events no longer necessary: https://matomo.org/faq/how-to/how-do-i-see-page-performance-reports/

No sure if this is an issue with this plugin, Matomo or Gatsby, but here goes...

We've moved the build into our non-prod environment (AWS S3 with CloudFront) and it works fine happily sending data over to Matomo, until... it decides that all routes are 404.

The issue was only noticed after we implemented this Matomo plugin.

On closer inspection, the only difference between the site working and not working, is when the cookie "_pk_ref.1.546b" gets set.

Removing this cookie fixes the issue.

Thanks

Implement user consent mode, see https://developer.matomo.org/guides/tracking-javascript-guide#asking-for-consent

Most minimal implementation would be to add the requireConsent check for all tracking, and allow to activate it via plugin option. Implementing the consent flow would be then left to plugin user.

Verify if a component for link tracking (outlines & downloads) is needed. If so, provide component similar to https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/blob/master/packages/gatsby-plugin-google-analytics/src/index.js#L4

• https://developer.matomo.org/guides/tracking-javascript-guide/#download-and-outlink-tracking

Hi,
we are using gatsby 5 with this cool matomo plugin in cookieless mode. We got the requirement to offer the opt-out tracking functionality in our privacy statement. (https://matomo.org/faq/general/faq_20000/)
I guess with a workaround using the requireConsent option it is possible to implement it. But my question is: Is there a better way to provide the opt out functionality?

^{Julian Schregle [email protected], Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH, legal info/Impressum}

Hey there! I'm curious - does this plugin support custom events?
https://developer.matomo.org/guides/tracking-javascript-guide#manually-trigger-events

I'm envisioning something similar to the function offered by the Gatsby GA plugin:
https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/blob/master/packages/gatsby-plugin-google-analytics/src/index.js#L80

I looked through the code & didn't find anything. Is there something I'm missing? If not, consider this an enhancement request 😄

Thanks!

Currently the plugin doesn't officially support Gatsby 4 (even though everything seems to work). I suppose the dependency range just needs to be updated?

warn Plugin gatsby-plugin-matomo is not compatible with your gatsby version 4.0.0 - It requires gatsby@^2.0.0 || ^3.0.0

Hi,

This plugin looks very nice. One thing that I don't like, however, is that it forces plugin users to honor Do-Not-Track (DNT).

I believe website owners have the right to ask visitors for consent to track them, and that such an explicit consent overrules any DNT setting. Currently, this plugin doesn't allow users to do this, however.

Even if you are not willing to give plugin users the choice whether they honor DNT or not – at least there should be an option to collect anonymous data (I'm new to Matomo, but it seems, it is possible to collect anonymous data).

Anonymous data are no personal or personally identifiable information, so they don't fall under any privacy law (as far as I know).