enhance statistics

[Ingo Steinke]

• removed obsolete and dysfunctional Microsoft tracking code [3.7.1]

  • Microsoft Ads don't need tracking on target page unless we want to use self-learning campaign types

• add custom Matomo event to reintroduce missing search terms [3.9.1]

Matomo fails to display search terms from referrers in the free version.
Webalizer and default Apache log files on shared hosting have not been a useful alternative either.

_paq.push(['trackEvent', 'Contact', 'Email Link Click', '[[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])']);

The above code example tracks the following event data:

Event Category: Contact
Event Action: Email Link Click
Event Name: [e-mail]
It works by telling Matomo that you want to push data into the platform _paq.push([ ]); and trackEvent defines the type of data being sent. Matomo then recognises the next two to four attributes as the Event’s; Category, Action, Name, Value.

You might also have noticed that the above code only shows three values after trackEvent. This is because the Event Value attribute is optional. If a Name or Value is not required, you can simply leave out the final parameters, rather than adding blank ones.

https://matomo.org/faq/reports/implement-event-tracking-with-matomo/

[Ingo Steinke]

The problem with the missing referer string seems to be the referrer policy forbidding the browser to include it in its URL.

See

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65337264/how-to-get-exactly-url-from-document-referrer
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4402502/how-does-google-set-the-http-referrer-when-someone-clicks-on-a-search-result-lin

[Ingo Steinke]

closed as impossible