Statistics

Statistics for the Frootbox CMS without cookies or personal data: visits and page views per day, the most visited pages, where visitors come from and their devices, on the screen "Statistics" of the backend.

How it counts

A small script (assets/count.js) on every page that visitors see sends the target and language of the page to POST /_statistics/hit, and for the first page of a visit the referring host (or utm_source) and the kind of device. No cookies, no storage in the browser, no IP address, no hash of anything: nothing tells visitors apart, so no consent is needed.

• A page view is every page that opens.

• A visit starts with a page opened from another website or none, not on a reload, with the back button or from a page of the website.

Signed-in users, the editing mode, previews, the design page, error pages, bots (by user agent) and requests from other websites count not.

Hits go into files below var/statistics/ (one line each, so a visit costs no write to the database) and are added to the tables frootbox_statistics_pages, …_sources and …_devices on every run of the scheduler and before every report. Only targets with a current address count. A day's file stops growing at 20 MB.

Query

frootbox/statistics/report.show with days (1 to 366, default 30) returns the report, also over the REST API. The role "editor" gets frootbox/statistics/* on installation.

Source and issues

This package is developed in the Frootbox monorepo and mirrored here read-only. Questions, bugs and ideas go there, see the documentation.