Google analytics is able to track cytosel session requests locally (outside of the shinyapps.io URL)

[matt-sd-watson]

Local instances of cytosel run outside of the shinyapps.io server are able to be tracked by Google Analytics i.e. local sessions run from within R Studio, if the Google tag HTML code is added to the UI header.

This would result in very high levels of activity corresponding not to abcam customers but to the developers working on cytosel locally.

May need to either

• modify the HTML code to request only through the server URL, or
• create a dedicated abcam branch that contains the HTML header that is not present in any of the other dev branches, to avoid false positives on cytosel customer activity

[matt-sd-watson]

analytics can be blocked from interactive developer sessions using a conditional with ! interactive(). This still allows for analytics tracking using shinyapps.io, which doesn't register as an interactive session.