Extension:Google Analytics Integration

Category:Unmaintained extensions#Google%20Analytics%20Integration Category:Extensions without an imageCategory:Extensions without a compatibility policyCategory:GPL licensed extensions
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Google Analytics Integration
Release status: unmaintainedCategory:Unmaintained extensions
Implementation User activity Category:User activity extensions, Hook Category:Hook extensions
Description Automatically inserts Google Universal Analytics (and/or other web analytics) tracking code at the bottom of MediaWiki pages
Author(s) Tim Laqua, Dāvis Mošenkovs
Latest version 3.0.1 (2017-10-29)
MediaWiki 1.23+Category:Extensions with manual MediaWiki version
PHP 5.4+
Database changes No
License GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download Category:Extensions in Wikimedia version control
Example Projects by Davis Mosenkovs (view page source at the bottom)
  • $wgGoogleAnalyticsAccount
  • $wgGoogleAnalyticsOtherCode
  • $wgGoogleAnalyticsAnonymizeIP
  • $wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnoreNsIDs
  • $wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnorePages
  • $wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnoreSpecials
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The Google Analytics Integration extension inserts Google Universal Analytics (and/or other web analytics) tracking code in every page viewed. Exclusion of specific pages, namespaces, special pages and all pages for specific groups of users is configurable.

This extension may be outdated for your needs. If you are using the new Global Site Tag for Google Analytics, try using Extension:HeadScript instead.

Alternatively you can put Google Analytics tag directly into MediaWiki:Common.js of your wiki.

Installation

  • Download and move the extracted googleAnalytics folder to your extensions/ directory.
    Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
    git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/googleAnalytics
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    require_once "$IP/extensions/googleAnalytics/googleAnalytics.php";
    // Replace xxxxxxx-x with YOUR GoogleAnalytics UA number
    $wgGoogleAnalyticsAccount = 'UA-xxxxxxx-x'; 
    
    // Optional configuration (for defaults see googleAnalytics.php)
    
    // Add HTML code for any additional web analytics (can be used alone or with $wgGoogleAnalyticsAccount)
    $wgGoogleAnalyticsOtherCode = '<script type="text/javascript" src="https://analytics.example.com/tracking.js"></script>';
    
    // Store full IP address in Google Universal Analytics (see https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en for details)
    $wgGoogleAnalyticsAnonymizeIP = true; 
    
    // Array with NUMERIC namespace IDs where web analytics code should NOT be included.
    $wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnoreNsIDs = [
        500
        ];
    
    // Array with page names (see magic word {{FULLPAGENAME}}) where web analytics code should NOT be included.
    $wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnorePages = [
        'PageName',
        'NamespaceName:PageName'
        ];
        
    // Array with special pages where web analytics code should NOT be included.
    $wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnoreSpecials = [
        'Userlogin',
        'Userlogout',
        'Preferences',
        'ChangePassword',
        'OATH'
        ];
        
    // Use 'noanalytics' permission to exclude specific user groups from web analytics, e.g.
    $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['noanalytics'] = true;
    $wgGroupPermissions['bot']['noanalytics'] = true;
    
    // To exclude all logged in users, give 'noanalytics' permission to the 'user' group, i.e.
    $wgGroupPermissions['user']['noanalytics'] = true;
    
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.Category:Extensions not using extension registration
The following options were removed in version 3.0.0:
  • $wgGoogleAnalyticsAddASAC
  • $wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnoreSysops
  • $wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnoreBots

Usage

  1. Create a Google Analytics account.
  2. Locate your UA number.
    • For the legacy code block, it can be found on the following line:
      _uacct="UA-xxxxxxx-x";
      
    • For the new ga.js code block, it can be found on the following line:
      var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-xxxxxxx-x");
      
  3. Follow installation instructions.
  4. Google Analytics stats should start populating within 24-48 hours.

See also

Category:Google extensions Category:Web Analytics extensions Category:Statistics extensions
Category:All extensions Category:Extensions in Wikimedia version control Category:Extensions not in ExtensionJson Category:Extensions not using extension registration Category:Extensions which add rights Category:Extensions with manual MediaWiki version Category:Extensions without a compatibility policy Category:Extensions without an image Category:GPL licensed extensions Category:Google extensions Category:Hook extensions Category:SkinAfterBottomScripts extensions Category:Statistics extensions Category:UnitTestsList extensions Category:Unmaintained extensions Category:User activity extensions Category:Web Analytics extensions