Goatcounter stopped working

[unbreakabl3]

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Hello, dear all.
The integration with Goatcounter went smoothly, but since a few days ago, I cannot see new visitors anymore. I tried to find in the compiled _site any mention of goat-counter, but nothing. How can I check what is wrong or what the proper settings should be?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Operations you have already tried

1. Re-deploy the site
2. Use VPN to simulate unique site visit
3. Clone vanilla Chirpy Starter template

Anything else?

No response

[kungfux]

No much to share but here are some insights.

• I experience same issue starting from Feb 27
• GoatCounter continues to return page views as expected
• I'm able to count page visit through API

token=
api=https://kungfux.goatcounter.com/api/v0

curl -X POST "$api/count" \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $token" \
    --data '{"no_sessions": true, "hits": [{"path": "/about"}]}'

API Docs
Manage API tokens

[kungfux]

I have no additional information as of now.

However, it seems like Google Analytics does not work too.

[cotes2020]

It seems that I made an oversight when packaging 6.5.1: I pre-released the code for web analytics configuration.

I'll be releasing a new version 6.5.2 to fix this later.

[kungfux]

Thanks for checking, Cotes.

I had an idea to check this but found no related changes in changelog and so did not try to play with configuration. I assume release process is a bit more complicated.

[cotes2020]

Packing the gem is done automatically by the script (tools/release), and this issue was a code leak caused by the Git branches I changed manually.

[unbreakabl3]

Thanks a lot for your fast support. So, I will wait for 6.5.2 to be released and check it again.

[kungfux]

@unbreakabl3 Meanwhile, analytics can be fixed by adding a new section to configuration:

# Web Analytics Settings
analytics:
  google:
    id: # fill in your Google Analytics ID
  goatcounter:
    id: # fill in your GoatCounter ID

I would also recommend to leave existing analytics configuration untouched until major release.

You may receive errors while trying to publish the site and it will require to override _includes/analytics/goatcounter.html by creating this file:

<!-- GoatCounter -->
<script
  async
  src="https://gc.zgo.at/count.js"
  data-goatcounter="https://{{ site.analytics.goatcounter.id }}.goatcounter.com/count"
></script>

[unbreakabl3]

Thank you. I will do it now and will update you.
PS. Version 6.5.2 doesn't fix that problem yet, right?

[unbreakabl3]

Confirm the provided solution fixes the problem. Thank you very much!

[kungfux]

PS. Version 6.5.2 doesn't fix that problem yet, right?

Hopefully, it does. I had no chance to check yet as it was just released :)

[unbreakabl3]

So... For me, the 6.5.2 with the provided workaround is working. I just can't tell if it's working because of 6.5.2 or because of the workaround 😁.

[kungfux]

It works without any workarounds now.

[ablzh]

Apparently, the problem persists because simply specifying the ID in _config.yml wasn't enough.
So, I created a goatcounter.html file with the script specified in the goatcounter dashboard, pre-created the directories you specified, and now everything works.

Am I correct in understanding that the ID is the first part of the goatcounter URL (the Account name during registration?) I just couldn't find any ID on the GoatCounter website.

[kungfux]

Yes, GoatCounter's ID is called code .

goatcounter.html is already a part of the Chirpy.