MatomoLiteTracker/README.md

Matomo Lite Tracker

This is an experiment of building a more lightweight variant of matomo.js by removing rarely used features and support for old browsers.

Keep in mind this is:

• experimental: I can't guarantee that it will work as expected
• inofficial: This is not officially maintained by the Matomo team
• incomplete: See below.

That said, if you are interested in trying it out, I'd be interested in hearing your feedback.

Advantages:

• much smaller (1KB gzipped with only the core code)
• easier to bundle in applications

Features

• tracking page views
• custom dimensions
• send data via POST
• browser features
  • cookie
  • res
  • browser plugins (pdf, flash, etc.)
• User ID
• Event Tracking
• Campaign tracking
• Search Tracking
• Goal Tracking
• Outlink Tracking
• manual ping
• manual DoNotTrack detection
• sendBeacon
• Performance Tracking

missing (yet)

• non utf-8 pages
• setCustomUrl
• setReferrerUrl
• HeartBeatTimer (automatic regular ping)

missing (???)

• consent tracking, opt-in, opt-out (probably better to be implemented by the user)
• Content Tracking
• download tracking
• setDomains
• event queue (every tracking request is sent immediatly when it is tracked)¹

missing (intentionally)

• Support for Internet Explorer and other outdated browsers
• everything using cookies (except possibly the opt-out cookie)
• custom variables
• Support for Matomo plugins
• E-Commerce tracking

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1. This might create some issues if you run trackPageview() and trackEvent() at the same time as the requests might not reach Matomo in this order. ↩︎