Analog User Guide - Web Analytics System

Analog support multiple analytics systems. With them, you can easily track your blog's performance and user behavior. The following analytics systems are provided by timlrx/pliny. Please refer to its README for a complete list of supported plugins and their configuration details.

Now, let's demonstrate how to set up an analytics system using Umami as an example.

Umami

1. Log in Umami. Click the "Add website" button on the "Websites" page, and fill the form with your blog's information such as name and homepage URL. Click "Save" to complete site creation.

   

2. On the next page, find the "Website ID" (a very long string), and set it as the value of analytics -> umamiAnalytics -> umamiWebsiteId in the user configuration file /data/site-config.ts.

   

If you have completed the above steps, your configuration file should look like this:

analytics: {
  umamiAnalytics: {
    umamiWebsiteId: '4ae5ABCD-EFGH-IJKL-MNOP-QRSTUVWb927e',
  },
},

Now, Umami will track your blog's traffic. You can view the statistics on the Umami dashboard.

Add a Icon to the Footer

To make it easier for visitors to access the analytics, you can add an icon link to the footer.

Umami provides a "shard link" on the "Websites" page. You may need to enable it first.

You can add the above URL with a Tabler icon in the user configuration file /data/site-config.ts, like this:

footer: {
  icons: {
    ...,
    Analytics: {
      icon: 'IconChartDots',
      href: 'https://cloud.umami.is/share/unndABCDEFGHIJys/your-site.com',
    },
  },
},

Then, you can see the analytics icon in the footer of your blog (like this demo site).

See Also

The analytics system in Analog is driven by the timlrx/pliny. Please visit it for more detailed configurations.