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User with enabled/disabled Javascript statistics #2035

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anonymous-matomo-user opened this issue Jan 20, 2011 · 3 comments
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User with enabled/disabled Javascript statistics #2035

anonymous-matomo-user opened this issue Jan 20, 2011 · 3 comments
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@anonymous-matomo-user
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When using the JS Tracker and an img tracker in <nonscript> as fallback for tracking users with disabled JS all visitors are recorded. But there is no statistics where the percentage of visitors of enabeld or disabled JS can be seen.

@robocoder
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The web is moving towards more js, not less; browsers with faster javascript engines; and more caching for performance.

What does this statistic really tell us?

It isn't an accurate statistic:

  • server side tracking via PiwikTracker class doesn't know if js is enabled or disabled
  • image tracker doesn't differentiate between real users with js disabled, privacy features that block web tracking, or bots

If you measure it, how do you act on the results? Eg a downward trend?

@anonymous-matomo-user
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It would tell me if the features on my website which are based on JS are used or have an detterend effect on useres with disabled JS. I just don't want to exclude people from my web page and if this would be a significant number I could react on it.

Of course this statistics would only work with the JS tracker combined with the img tracker.

A trend to higher acceptation for JS (more people with enabled JS) could result in changing the website to more desktop-like behaviour with AJAX. Or going back to more static behaviour.

@anonymous-matomo-user anonymous-matomo-user added this to the Piwik 1.2 milestone Jul 8, 2014
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andykirk commented Aug 4, 2014

@anonymous-piwik-user this may be late but I use a custom variable in the no-js URL to keep a tally.

Hth.

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