'Site traffic report'?

[ganncamp (G Ann Campbell)]

If I go to /admin there’s a bar graph toward the top of the page labeled “Legacy Consolidated Pageviews.”

“Legacy?” I think. Checking the info tip, I see that it’s superseded by the ‘Site traffic’ report.

Okay cool. Let’s go look at that.

Except it’s not in the list of reports.

Checking here I see a 2024 announcement of the report which tells me I should be seeing it on the admin dashboard. (I don’t.) There’s also an “understanding” post which tells me I can find it at discourse.example.com/admin/reports/site_traffic.

Except that when I go there, what I’m redirected to is “Legacy Consolidated Pageviews.” Again.

So… what gives?

[Lilly (Lillian)]

i wonder if it is because you are hosted? i have it on my self-hosted site on reports page and at /admin/reports/site_traffic

edit: nevermind, i found it on a hosted site too.

[Moin]

There is a hidden site setting use_legacy_pageviews. I wonder if that is enabled on your forum.

Lilly could enable that on her forum to check. My hosted forum shows the site traffic report just like hers

[Lilly (Lillian)]

@Moin

Lilly could enable that on her forum to check. My hosted forum doesn’t show the legacy pageviews report

give me a minute to get to the command line lol

[ganncamp (G Ann Campbell)]

[Lilly (Lillian)]

can confirm that the hidden setting SiteSetting.use_legacy_pageviews is enabled on your site. when i set it to true on my site, the Site Traffic Report disappears:

[Moin]

It’s a hidden site setting, so you won’t find it in the interface.

Hosted customers need to contact the team.

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And self-hosters have to use the Rails console: Using Hidden Site Settings

[ganncamp (G Ann Campbell)]

Why is this promoted on the admin page but so hard to get to? 2 years after introduction, with the ‘Consolidated Pageviews’ report denigrated as ‘legacy’, you would think this wouldn’t be so hard.

[Bas (Bas van Leeuwen)]

Hi @ganncamp, you raise a good point, it’s kinda confusing in the state that you are in.

The vast majority of our users and customers have been moved to billing based on the new pageviews, some have not.
Could you please reach out to us if you would want to switch over?