Does GitHub provide some (native) way to track visitors on some hosted page (pages at *.github.io/project)?
I know we can see traffic on GitHub repositories and I thought there would be some similar features for pages but couldn't find anything.
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No.
The only way to track analytics for a GitHub Pages page/site is via a third-party service such as Clicky, Google Analytics, Gauges, Plausible, etc.
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3Not looking to shoot the messenger or anything, but... This sucks. I don't want to spend money on a Github Paes site, that's why I'm using Github Pages. And I don't want to hand the data over to Google, because why would I want to do that?– DanielDec 31, 2020 at 23:36
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Mixpanel has a free tier, and Matomo is a privacy-friendly alternative to GA Jul 29, 2021 at 21:18
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GitHub has provided native "GitHub Traffic Analytics" since 2014.
Besides tracking visitors to your repository, it provides a 'content' panel where you can see the traffic to individual pages within that repository.
- Navigate to your desired repository
- Go to 'Insights' and select 'Traffic'.
This is what it looks like:
If your GitHub page doesn't have enough traffic, or it's new, you'll see this:
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75I'm not certain, but I believe this is a graph of visits to individual pages in your GitHub repo via github.com URLs. Not the hosted GitHub Pages URLs.– NelsonJan 13, 2018 at 16:57
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7This answer is for GitHub repo. Not GitHub pages. For GitHub pages, I think Google Analytics is fine.– alsotangJan 18, 2019 at 8:01
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5yeah, but at some point google analytics is becoming evil to my opinion. Too much tracking :-\– Juh_Feb 7, 2020 at 14:29
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2In that case you might consider building your own Matomo (matomo.org) instance. Apr 1, 2021 at 13:06