Extension:Google Analytics Integration

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Google Analytics Integration Release status:Extension status stable
ImplementationTemplate:Extension#type	User activity
DescriptionTemplate:Extension#description	Automatically inserts Google Universal Analytics (and/or other web analytics) tracking code at the bottom of MediaWiki pages
Author(s)Template:Extension#username	Tim Laqua, Dāvis Mošenkovs
Latest versionTemplate:Extension#version	3.0.1 (2015-03-14)
MediaWikiTemplate:Extension#mediawiki	1.17+
PHPTemplate:Extension#php	5.3+
Database changesTemplate:Extension#needs-updatephp	No
LicenseTemplate:Extension#license	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download snapshot (Git master) Git [?]: repo summary browse file tree (GitHub) commit history code review
ExampleTemplate:Extension#example	Projects by Davis Mosenkovs (view page source at the bottom)
ParametersTemplate:Extension#parameters $wgGoogleAnalyticsAccount $wgGoogleAnalyticsOtherCode $wgGoogleAnalyticsAnonymizeIP $wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnoreNsIDs $wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnorePages $wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnoreSpecials
Added rightsTemplate:Extension#rights noanalytics
Hooks usedTemplate:Extension#hook SkinAfterBottomScriptsManual:Hooks/SkinAfterBottomScripts
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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.

Installation

• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called googleAnalytics in your extensions/ folder.
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:

require_once "$IP/extensions/googleAnalytics/googleAnalytics.php";
// Replace xxxxxxx-x with YOUR GoogleAnalytics UA number
$wgGoogleAnalyticsAccount = 'UA-xxxxxxx-x'; 
// 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>';

// Optional configuration (for defaults see googleAnalytics.php)
// Store full IP address in Google Universal Analytics (see https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en for details)
$wgGoogleAnalyticsAnonymizeIP = false; 
// Array with NUMERIC namespace IDs where web analytics code should NOT be included.
$wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnoreNsIDs = array(500);
// Array with page names (see magic word Extension:Google Analytics Integration) where web analytics code should NOT be included.
$wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnorePages = array('ArticleX', 'Foo:Bar');
// Array with special pages where web analytics code should NOT be included.
$wgGoogleAnalyticsIgnoreSpecials = array( '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 'user' group, i.e.
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['noanalytics'] = true;

• Y Done - Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

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

• User:Dantman/Analytics integration - Techniques on how to flexibly add analytics without using extensions. This technique does not work on MobileFrontend.
• Extension:Open Web Analytics - Similar extension using Open Web Analytics.
• Extension:Piwik Integration - Similar extension using Piwik.
• Extension:BaseHooks (does not work due a bug) - an universal extension to insert arbitrary strings or files at given points of the page.

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