Tracking Custom Post Type Archive pages

  • Resolved Sunfire

    (@chillsunfire)


    6 months ago

    First off, love this free plugin. It does a great job at providing the minimal data that my clients need without being invasive or bloaty.

    Now, this is the first time I’ve built up a site using Custom Post Types (created using ACF), so maybe I’m just missing something simple… But I’m not seeing the Archive page (included link) listed in the Visited Pages section of the dashboard widget. The single posts are coming up correctly, showing my client and I poking around and looking at the individual posts. But the main landing page, the post type archive, is something we want to make sure we are tracking visits to as well yet it does not appear on the Pages list.

    I am not using any SEO tools yet that would set “do not index” or similar flags to hide this page.

    We are not using the normal blog posts (default post type from wordpress) nor do we have any other archive pages to check.

    Any idea why a custom post type archive page would not show up on the Visited Pages list yet the single posts of that type do?

    Thanks.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    6 months ago

    Hi @chillsunfire,

    Thank you for the kind words!

    I’m afraid that the plugin not tracking visits to archive pages is a design decision that has proven quite hard to work around. The plugin re-uses the WordPress post ID in its database tables to save on storage space and to be able to easily fetch page titles or create lists of most visited posts or pages. This greatly helps in keeping the plugin fast and save on storage space, but the downside is that anything without a post ID can not be easily tracked.

    We hope to add support for non-post tracking in the future, but it probably won’t be in the next few weeks because of the complexity involved.

    I hope that explains. If not, let me know please.

    Best,
    Danny

    Summary (TLDR): Koko Analytics can only track posts, pages or custom post types (+ the homepage) right now.

    Thread Starter Sunfire

    (@chillsunfire)

    6 months ago

    Thanks for the explanation Danny. That does make sense, and I appreciate your attention to space-saving by using the post IDs.

    Knowing this, I will inform my client… while also considering how I’d like to adjust our setup to be able to track visits to the main directory page. If I can wrangle blocks and the sidebar, maybe I’ll make an actual page instead of relying on the default-generated archive….

    Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    5 months, 3 weeks ago

    Hi @chillsunfire,

    I’m actually making good progress on Koko Analytics version 2.x, which will make the switch to path based tracking. The hardest part is getting the data migration right for existing users. If you’re working on a new site with not that much data yet, perhaps you want to give the beta version of Koko Analytics 2.x a try?

    You can download it here: https://dannyvankooten-3.stack.storage/s/KqsYHAuTsMqlKJjM

    If you don’t want to run the beta version, you can just ignore this message. 🙂

    Best, Danny

    • This reply was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by Danny van Kooten. Reason: new beta version
    Thread Starter Sunfire

    (@chillsunfire)

    5 months, 3 weeks ago

    Thanks Danny! Sure thing, lemme see…..

    So I installed it on my client’s site (less than 2 months worth of low traffic, so I figured it’d be okay)… There was a brief “critical error” that came up in the activation process, but reloading the site cleared it up and I am not seeing any other errors yet.

    Here’s a look at the Top 20 pages listing now (showing paths instead of page titles) –

    Seems to have handled the existing data okay…

    I’ll have to poke at it when not logged in to see if I can get the Archive page (/audit-firm/) to show up on this list…

    Thanks for sharing – let me know if you have anything else I should be watching for with this beta version…

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