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Free Open Source Matomo Tag Manager - A simple way to manage and maintain all of your (third-party) tags on your website.
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Add a checkbox within the Matomo configuration variable to track bots #771

Open Chardonneaur opened 3 months ago

Chardonneaur commented 3 months ago

Hi team, That's really a minor thing, but adding a checkbox with the following feature "_paq.push(['appendToTrackingUrl', 'bots=1']);." within the Matomo configuration variable will allow us to easily track bots with Matomo Tag Manager.

snake14 commented 3 months ago

Hi @Chardonneaur . Thank you for taking the time to create this issue. I agree that would be a fairly easy implementation. Do you have any guess as to how many customers would be interested in that option?

Chardonneaur commented 3 months ago

@snake14 to be honest, almost no one, it is a very very low priority issue. I just wanted to docment it. It could only have value if we had an extensive documentation explaining the benefits of bot tracking.

Stan-vw commented 2 months ago

would you say the feature adds more value than the downside of adding the extra complexity? (additional tickbox, additional helptext, it's all overhead to the users)

Chardonneaur commented 2 months ago

I think we could group all the optionnal settings into a drop down menu. But I am saying also that the tag manager should reflect the capabilities of Matomo, so not offering this feature is a drawback to me.