prevent redirects from triggering pageviews on plausible

[neuromusic]

📚 Documentation

Related to napari/docs#364, the current implementation to redirect from /* to /stable/* appears to result in triggering an event to plausible before the redirect. This complicates measuring site traffic statistics such as Bounce Rate, which appears to have been artificially suppressed by the addition of redirects for versions docs.

https://plausible.io/napari.org

[melissawm]

I don't have experience with plausible tracking, but as a quick fix would it be sufficient to remove the

    <script async defer data-domain="napari.org" src="https://plausible.io/js/plausible.js"></script>

line from the pages that trigger the redirect? This would mean, for example:

• https://napari.org/usage.html would not have that line, but would redirect to https://napari.org/stable/usage.html
• https://napari.org/stable/usage.html would stay untouched and have the plausible tracking line.

[neuromusic]

@melissawm yes, I believe that would do the trick.

[melissawm]

Hi folks, can you confirm that this change fixed the issue? Thanks!

[melissawm]

Re-ping: is this fixed?

[psobolewskiPhD]

I'm not sure how to check if this is fixed, but I think this belongs in napari/docs so will transfer.

[melissawm]

If anyone with access to the metrics can check that, it would be awesome.