Añade el seguimiento de Plausible Analytics o Fathom a Discourse

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Plausible Analytics

  • First, add your domain to your Plausible Analytics instance and grab your tracking code. It should look something like this:
<script async defer data-domain="community.example.com" src="https://plausible.example.com/js/plausible.js"></script>

  • Create a new theme component from Admin > Customize > Themes.

  • Then paste the tracking code in the </head> section.

  • Click Save.

Make sure to add this to all available themes so you can track analytics across all users!

That’s it!

:information_source: If you don’t see data flowing, the script may be blocked by your CSP settings. Check your browser console and if you’re getting errors, add https://plausible.io/js/script.js to your CSP settings.

Edit: Adding the Fathom or Plausible Content security policy script src is no longer required due to this update Content-Security-Policy now uses 'strict-dynamic'

Fathom

Please see the Fathom guide for Discourse.

Updated May 14, 2025 with Fathom’s guide for Discourse
For further info, see Fathom’s guide here:

Note: For both Plausible and Fathom, their scripts work fine in a component attached to your theme(s) and inserted into head of each template you want to track. The new guide from Fathom does not use the “component method”.

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According to Plausible’s roadmap on Github it seems that it’s going to be possible sometime in the near future to embed one’s Plausible page into one’s website.

https://github.com/plausible/analytics/discussions/213

Would something like this be embeddable into Discourse, or might it require a plugin, or…?

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You need a theme-component for that.

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Hey @Falco, has anything changed about your frontend routing? I can see you recommend people use the hash version of our script which is provided for hash-based routers. It seems to me like Discourse is using the HTML5 PushState API now, is that correct?

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Not sure why @justin picked the hash version here, since we use HTML5 History API since forever. Made the OP a wiki, so it’s editable by all.

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I use plausible and I can confirm that the regular plausible.js does NOT log the urls if a user moves from topic to topic. So if I need accurate representation of my visitors, I have to use the hashed plausible js.

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I have same issue with the hashed version though

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Weird to have these conflicting reports. Theoretically since Discourse uses the HTML5 history API, I would think that our standard script (not the hash script) would be the one that tracks correctly.

Unfortunately I don’t have a discourse instance set up that I could test with.

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Probably my lack of knowledge about that :slight_smile: I originally went with the hash version due to us being a SPA and having custom tracking for other analytics providers. If plausible.js works, feel free to change it!

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Hi @ukutaht

I switched from plausible.hash.js to plausible.js for one of my two discourse sites and this is what happens when I do that.

The site is opened in another tab and it shows no activity at all

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Here is my other site with plausible.hash.js which correctly shows 1 online and generally, correct pages are also shown in the top pages widget.

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I’m happy to try out any troubleshooting in case it helps eliminate need for the hashed js

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Ah yes I recall seeing the same behavior now that you say this – which is why I went with the hashed script route.

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Dumb question. Does adding this feature track what’s going on inside your discourse community or does it track outbound traffic to another domain the community is linked to?

What sort of metrics can you find out from this?

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I can (in my plausible dashboard) see which links of my discourse forum are being visited and from which country.

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¿Así que hay algunos errores al usar Plausible como Analítica?

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No, debería funcionar perfectamente. Llevo un tiempo usándolo en mi comunidad y no he notado ningún problema.

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He editado el OP para incluir instrucciones sencillas para usar Fathom. Por favor, expanda según sea necesario y pruebe más a fondo.

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Funciona muy bien :smiley:

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Hola y gracias por tu guía.

Quiero integrar Fathom a Discourse, ¿necesito agregar hash.js al código, al igual que lo hiciste con Plausible?

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Creo que es script.js como se indica en el OP (leer hasta Para añadir soporte para Fathom).

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Actualización: Los chicos de Fathom han preparado un documento sencillo para guiarte en lo que necesitas hacer. ¡Disfruta!

Nota de Fathom: Puede haber una forma de cambiarlo, pero Discourse añade la etiqueta rel="canonical" para todas las páginas de vuelta a la página de inicio. Por lo tanto, todas nuestras visitas a páginas en Fathom aparecían como si solo provinieran de la página de inicio.

Hablé con Fathom y me dijeron que añadiera esto a tu script de seguimiento, canonical="false" para que quede como a continuación.


-- Fathom - análisis de sitios web sencillos y bonitos --
<script src="https://cdn.domain.com/script.js" data-spa="auto" data-site="ADHGFREZ" data-canonical="false" defer></script>
 -- / Fathom -

Eso solucionó el problema.

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