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@Artucuno Hey there, I believe that feature (or at least most of it) is available in GitHub already. You can follow the steps below:
Hope this answers your question 😁 |
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This does not track website traffic, but repo traffic! |
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that sounds exactly like Google Analytics, well you can use Google Analytics for GitHub Pages if you are really into it, I tried it before |
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It's a shame that github doesn't provide a server side solution. |
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I use Google Analytics for my GitHub Pages sites. |
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Hello, @melvincwng - the Traffic stats at the location you specified appear to be directly related to repository traffic (https://docs.github.com/en/rest/metrics/traffic). In other words, when folks view the repository via github.com, stats are tracked. What I would like to see (and what I think @Artucuno is asking), is a set of similar traffic stats as to what GitHub Pages (project.github.io) traffic is happening:
My primary reason for asking this is that a tool like Google Analytics is over-engineered for these basic needs. Also, it's far less privacy-focused. I'm simply looking for equivalent-type of stats for GitHub Pages as what is provided for Github Repos. UPDATE: I did just manage to figure out that you can get some of this type of reporting if you sign up for a free Cloudflare account and enable web analytics on cloudflare. You can read about it on the Cloudflare Blog |
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I agree with this proposal and I think it should be kind of mandatory. Most of us are privacy focused folks and I’d love to have, not just analytics, but direct access to logs of every request to GitHub pages, I mean server logs. We could then use any software or tool to generate analytics from them. |
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Just wanted to echo the sentiment in this thread that having some built-in mechanism for:
Would be super useful! |
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Oh yes please! |
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can I haz log? |
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Real |
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Would be nice to have something super simple, like the visitor counts for different pages. Similar to Popular content on the Traffic data, but for pages hosted on Pages. |
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This would be very useful. |
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Google analytics can be used instead |
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Three problems with that:
Sure, if you need to know every little detail, go for GA, but if you like me just want some stats over which pages are most popular, and the visitor count, something small on the GitHub Pages server end would be ideal. |
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Having the logs would be super helpful, even if user info has to be scrubbed. I'd be very interested in knowing what URLs are referring my pages. |
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Bump! Like a lot of posters, I don't use Google Analytics for ethical reasons (third-party tracking scripts are nasty), but I'd love to have basic server-side traffic info — even just pageviews/day — to know how many people are visiting. |
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@davidmegginson There are more ethical analytics tools you can use. Check out https://dataethics.eu/tools/ under "Alternative Webstatistic Tools" |
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Aren't those all still client-side implementations? Server stats are basically already collected, just want exposure to view them. |
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Exactly. GitHub (presumably) already collects all the information we are interested in, we just want to see it. |
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Agreed, though probably no financial incentive for GitHub to add such a feature. Unless they tie it to GitHub Pro or something |
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On the other hand, it should not cost that much to implement the feature, and they shouldn't lose any money by offering it. Considering that GitHub Pages is free I don't think this should be a deal breaker. I'm assuming GitHub wants people to use Pages, so it should be in their interest to have as many good features as possible. |
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In case any product people read this: The number 1 reason that would make me churn right now is need to have insight into my site's traffic. I've deliberately chosen to not include any cookies nor 3rd party content in my site, and would have to rely solely on server logs to have this kind of insight. I can do without it for now, but eventually that'll be my reason to host somewhere else. |
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Hear, hear! |
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Hey! I'm not sure if its already a thing but Github Pages should have a graph in the traffic tab of your Github Repo with the visitors count, country of origin, etc.
Thanks.
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