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Public analytics as a Node.js microservice. No sysadmin experience required! 📈
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Analytics on homepage? #80

Open j-f1 opened 6 years ago

j-f1 commented 6 years ago

Attempting to GET the / endpoint yields Please include a path to a page. on the client and:

Error: Please include a path to a page.
    at createError (/app/node_modules/micro/lib/server.js:152:15)
    at analyticsHandler (/app/node_modules/micro-analytics-cli/src/handler.js:58:11)
    at /app/node_modules/micro-analytics-cli/src/handler.js:109:16
    at resolve (/app/node_modules/micro/lib/server.js:24:34)
    at Promise._execute (/app/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/debuggability.js:300:9)
    at Promise._resolveFromExecutor (/app/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:483:18)
    at new Promise (/app/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:79:10)
    at Function.exports.run (/app/node_modules/micro/lib/server.js:24:3)
    at Server.server (/app/node_modules/micro/lib/server.js:13:50)
    at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
    at Server.emit (events.js:214:7)
    at parserOnIncoming (_http_server.js:602:12)
    at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete (_http_common.js:116:23)

in the server logs. Is there any way to track events at the root page?

For example, running fetch(`https://my-micro.analytics/${location.pathname}`) doesn’t record visits to the homepage.

saulhardman commented 6 years ago

Hey @j-f1, I'm using a single MicroAnalytics instance to track all of my sites. I prefix the path with a 'namespace', like so:-

fetch(`https://my-micro.analytics/my-website.com${location.pathname}`)
// => https://my-micro.analytics/my-website.com/this-is-the-path/

I know adding a generic namespace like 'website' might no be ideal, but it works in this case. Tip: test using ?inc=false initially to ensure that the string template/concatenation is working as expected before entries are added – getting the slashes right can be a bit of a pain at times.