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FEATURE: Add experimental tracking of 'real browser' pageviews (#26647)
Our 'page_view_crawler' / 'page_view_anon' metrics are based purely on the User Agent sent by clients. This means that 'badly behaved' bots which are imitating real user agents are counted towards 'anon' page views.

This commit introduces a new method of tracking visitors. When an initial HTML request is made, we assume it is a 'non-browser' request (i.e. a bot). Then, once the JS application has booted, we notify the server to count it as a 'browser' request. This reliance on a JavaScript-capable browser matches up more closely to dedicated analytics systems like Google Analytics.

Existing data collection and graphs are unchanged. Data collected via the new technique is available in a new 'experimental' report.
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app FEATURE: Add experimental tracking of 'real browser' pageviews (#26647) 2024-04-25 11:00:01 +01:00
bin DEV: Drop Ember 3 feature flag 2024-02-26 12:22:05 +00:00
config FEATURE: Add experimental tracking of 'real browser' pageviews (#26647) 2024-04-25 11:00:01 +01:00
db FEATURE: after wizard admin is redirected to the guide page (#26696) 2024-04-23 10:04:15 +10:00
docs FEATURE: after wizard admin is redirected to the guide page (#26696) 2024-04-23 10:04:15 +10:00
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lib FEATURE: Add experimental tracking of 'real browser' pageviews (#26647) 2024-04-25 11:00:01 +01:00
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migrations DEV: Prepare new structure for migrations-tooling (#26631) 2024-04-15 18:47:40 +02:00
patches DEV: Update ember-cli to 5.6.0 (#25886) 2024-02-27 10:48:30 +01:00
plugins FEATURE: implements last read message for threads (#26702) 2024-04-25 10:47:54 +02:00
public Update translations (#26136) 2024-03-12 15:40:11 +01:00
script DEV: Import script should insert more data into `user_stats` table (#26551) 2024-04-11 14:05:21 +02:00
spec FEATURE: Add experimental tracking of 'real browser' pageviews (#26647) 2024-04-25 11:00:01 +01:00
test DEV: Update chrome-launcher from 0.15.2 to 1.1.0 (#25909) 2024-02-27 11:25:11 +01:00
vendor UX: Add chevron icons for expanding and collapsing all toggles in the admin sidebar (#26246) 2024-03-21 10:25:14 +11:00
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.eslintignore DEV: convert I18n pseudo package into real package (discourse-i18n) (#23867) 2023-10-12 14:44:01 +01:00
.eslintrc.cjs DEV: Use `@discourse/lint-configs` (#24038) 2023-10-23 12:08:35 +02:00
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.gitattributes DEV: Remove GitHub gjs highlighting workaround (#24791) 2023-12-08 11:55:20 +00:00
.gitignore FEATURE: Merge discourse-automation (#26432) 2024-04-03 18:20:43 +03:00
.jsdoc DEV: Remove unmaintained tidy-jsdoc dependency (#25110) 2024-01-03 10:30:54 +00:00
.licensed.yml Build(deps): Bump highline from 2.1.0 to 3.0.0 (#25150) 2024-01-08 22:20:15 +01:00
.licensee.json DEV: Merge root JS packages (#25857) 2024-02-26 13:45:58 +00:00
.npmrc
.prettierignore DEV: Patch `deprecated-run-loop-and-computed-dot-access` in production (#25074) 2024-01-02 10:44:26 +00:00
.prettierrc.cjs DEV: Use `@discourse/lint-configs` (#24038) 2023-10-23 12:08:35 +02:00
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.rubocop.yml DEV: Update rubocop-discourse to latest version 2024-03-04 15:08:35 +01:00
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.template-lintrc.cjs DEV: Update js linting setup (#25365) 2024-01-24 15:30:03 +01:00
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CODEOWNERS DEV: Add "migrations-tooling" label to PRs for import scripts (#25062) 2023-12-28 21:26:05 +01:00
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COPYRIGHT.md
Gemfile Revert "DEV: Add pry-stack_explorer plugin gem (#26732)" (#26739) 2024-04-24 13:03:35 +01:00
Gemfile.lock Revert "DEV: Add pry-stack_explorer plugin gem (#26732)" (#26739) 2024-04-24 13:03:35 +01:00
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README.md Replace Twitter screenshot with X screenshot (#25506) 2024-02-01 09:11:54 -07:00
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jsconfig.json Enable Embroider/Webpack code spliting for Wizard (#24919) 2023-12-20 13:15:06 +00:00
lefthook.yml
package.json DEV: Add experimental `ember-instantsearch` add-on (#26667) 2024-04-24 11:49:05 -07:00
translator.yml DEV: Add "automation" plugin to Crowdin (#26497) 2024-04-03 20:00:42 +02:00
yarn.lock DEV: Add experimental `ember-instantsearch` add-on (#26667) 2024-04-24 11:49:05 -07:00

README.md

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