How do I track which visits have Javascript enabled/disabled?

[claudioschneider]

is there any possiblity to find out if the visitor of my website has enabled or disabled javascript?

thanks in advance!

cheers

[mackieee]

Edit: After a little more googling around; A <noscript> method: http://piwik.org/faq/how-to/#faq_176 that I never knew of! I found this through the Piwik forums, there's a lot more resources there to help you with your answer.

As the server side has way of knowing (Browser setting and not included in the HTTP Headers) and of course, if it was Client side and it was disabled; no chance :)

As a possible workaround, If you were to use Piwik's PHP Server side tracking method; send a Custom variable along with each request to specify if JavaScript is enabled or not. By default it's not; however once the user arrives on the site and sends a successful dummy AJAX Call - you know it's enabled for the request of the session.

[claudioschneider]

Thank you for your detailed answer. That should help me :)

Cheers

[mattab]

It is possible to track JavaScript usage with Piwik using the following technique:

• create a custom dimension (https://piwik.org/docs/custom-dimensions/) "JavaScript enabled"
• in the Piwik JS code, set this variable to "yes" eg._paq.push(['setCustomDimension', customDimensionId = 1, "yes"]); (javascript is always enabled when this runs)
• in the noscript code set the variable to "no". eg. append to the noscript piwik tracker URL piwik.php?....&dimension1=no (javascript is disabled as noscript was triggered) -> assuming you "JavaScript enabled" is customDimensionId = 1

if you use this technique let us know how it goes!

(leaving ticket opened as we could maybe move this into a FAQ or feature it as a useful custom dimension)

[claudioschneider]

Hi

I've made it on the same way ;) And it works :)

Thanks for your answer.

Cheers

On 12 Nov 2016, at 08:47, Matthieu Aubry notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com> wrote:

It is possible to track JavaScript usage with Piwik using the following technique:

• create a custom dimension (https://piwik.org/docs/custom-dimensions/) "JavaScript enabled"
• in the Piwik JS code, set this variable to "yes" eg._paq.push(['setCustomDimension', customDimensionId = 1, "yes"]); (javascript is always enabled when this runs)
• in the noscript code set the variable to "no". eg. append to the noscript piwik tracker URL piwik.php?....&dimension1=no (javascript is disabled as noscript was triggered) -> assuming you "JavaScript enabled" is customDimensionId = 1

if you use this technique let us know how it goes!

(leaving ticket opened as we could maybe move this into a FAQ or feature it as a useful custom dimension)

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