[question] Matomo - Full Photo view logging

[Fireballcz]

Hello, please is there a way how to force Matomo log to see, which Full Photo was viewed by a visitor?
Many thanks!

[kamil4]

I have no experience with Matomo log. However, have you checked your HTTP daemon access logs? Anything accessed in uploads/big/ will be Full/Original images, or uploads/medium/ for the Lychee photo view (although in that case we are also prefetching the next and previous images so you'll get some false positives as well).

[Fireballcz]

Hello Kamil4, Matomo (formeerly Piwik) https://matomo.org/ is an opensource alternative to Google Analytics, and I think better alternative. I need somewhere add matomo JS tag, but I dont know where. Laravel integration of Lychee is more complicated for me than Lychee alone, but Lychee alone is missing important user etc. functionality. So Lychee-Laravel is a good choice… Yes, I have Apache logs, which shows, what is required, but log itself is hard to evaluate and not handy. Matomo output is very user friendly and very simple to evaluate with direct access to visited pages. Im interested in trigering this script when a Full Photo is displayed… The tag looks like this: <script type="text/javascript"> var _paq = window._paq || []; _paq.push(['trackPageView']); _paq.push(['enableLinkTracking']); (function() { var u="//www.somepage.dom/matomo/"; _paq.push(['setTrackerUrl', u+'matomo.php']); _paq.push(['setSiteId', '1']); var d=document, g=d.createElement('script'), s=d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; g.type='text/javascript'; g.async=true; g.defer=true; g.src=u+'matomo.js'; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s); })(); </script> Many thanks for help.

[kamil4]

I see. You are looking for an ability to inject custom code into Lychee-generated pages. I don't believe we have anything of that sort ready to go for HTML/JS (we do have support for custom CSS).

You could add it to the gallery blade (https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee-Laravel/blob/master/resources/views/gallery.blade.php), which is a template for all Lychee gallery pages. That would probably be the simplest. However, the template is used both for the photo view and for the album(s) views, while it sounds like you are only interested in photo view? That will be more tricky I think. If that is what you want, I think you will need to add your code directly to our JavaScript front end. view.photo.init or one of the functions it calls (e.g., view.photo.photo) are probably your best bet. Instructions on how to recompile the front end are here.

[Fireballcz]

Many thanks for a good hint. I'll give it a try.

[julianwachholz]

Hi there! I am also interested in adding a custom HTML tag on all pages such as Google Analytics/Matomo/etc.

As there already is a custom CSS option, this could be done in a similar fashion? I don't think it makes sense to limit it to a single template.

[Fireballcz]

Hi there! I am also interested in adding a custom HTML tag on all pages such as Google Analytics/Matomo/etc.
As there already is a custom CSS option, this could be done in a similar fashion? I don't think it makes sense to limit it to a single template.

Hello Julian!
I trided to add Matomo analytics script. I was partially successful.
Analytics script can be injected in resources/views/gallery.blade.php inside section

@section('head-js')
@endsection

In this case is page hit counted only once, no matter, which next gallery/images are viewed.

Script can be also injected in resources/views/includes/blade.head.php, just above
<script src="dist/Larapass.js"></script>
Problem is, that currently viewed gallery/image url is not evaluated correctly, so in Matomo you see just a number of hits, not correct gallery/image url hit :(.

If you find out, how to correctly evaluate gallery/image url, please, do not forget share your find.
Thanks!
Fire

[julianwachholz]

Thanks for the suggestion. It seems trying to integrate Matomo would be more effort than it is worth.

But, since I am only running the plain Docker image I can't easily change files within it, without building my own image first.

[Fireballcz]

Im using option two. My luck is, that Im running Apache and LL on my own server, so I have full access to the server logs. Matomo shows me the frequency of user hits, so I can filter logs, to see exact gallery/image hits.

[ildyria]

Now supported.