Track origin of traffic from what part of page in Plausible analytics
- How to easily track internal origin of traffic (reached an article from trending vs editor’s picks blocks, got to donate page via main menu vs footer links)
- Track origin of internal traffic from what part of page the person followed a link from
The goal is to track things like: how many people clicked on links from what parts of pages? in the ‘related content’ block or ‘popular content’ block or the donate link and
News sites seem to use origin for this.
(I think it would be really cool if this could be done simply by adding classes like origin-footer or origin-main-menu or origin-highlighted with a script extension adding the ?origin=footer to all links within the region with the special class— but first we need a way to see the result of such query parameters at all.)
We would be happy to abuse source or even ref for this but it does not seem that would work? This seems pretty fundamental, so wondering if i’m missing something. Here is what we see in the filters:
- UTM tags is only for UTM tags
- ref and source are treated as aliases for UTM_SOURCE
- filtering page by query (
?) does not work (shows everything) and filtering by=shows only weird typos– https://plausible.io/plausible.io?period=month&page=%3D - given the above, even if
originand other were to be allowed by the standard script, or even if they were added with the manual script, there does not seem to be a good way to filter for them in the Plausible interface
Is there a good way forward?
Posted this discussion here: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/discussions/1927