Local Google Analytics (with CDN support) 1.0.0

[Finexes]

TRGCommunity submitted a new resource:

Local Google Analytics (with CDN support) - Fix that damn “Leverage Browser Caching” warning

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Based on this blog entry, I decided to create an add-on, as I finally wanted to fix the “Leverage Browser Caching” warning you get when you perform a speed test on your website.

What does it do?
It replaces the URL in the google_analytics template with the URL of your local analytics.js.

Features:

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[tajhay]

Does the addon do anything besides removing the warning and puting the google analytics template in your local path? i.e. Does it make the site faster?

 

[Finexes]

Is does not much more, but you may read the following blog entry that inspired me to create this add-on:

https://www.keycdn.com/blog/local-analytics/?utm_campaign=2016-06-09-local-analytics

 

[Mouth]

Great resource. Better for site load times to have GA being delivered by own CDN.

 

[rdn]

Feature request:
I think much better to grab the analytics.js everyday not once a month.
Then append versioning/cache buster on the js file like:

js/trg/local_ga/analytics.js?_v=0ce7af43

Change the cache buster string once updated js file is downloaded.

 

[Fred.]

Does this work together with Digitalpoint Better Analytics?

 

[Mouth]

Heads-up for others and @TRGCommunity that this no longer works and stops analytics loading as of XF 1.5.13, due to changes in the google_analytics template to force https.
The fix is to enable developer mode and adjust Local Google Analytics modification's of the google_analytics template. Change required:

Find:

https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js

Replace:

<xen:if is="{$xenOptions.TRG_localga_enable}">{$javaScriptSource}/trg/local_ga/analytics.js<xen:else />https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js</xen:if>

Without this fix, the HTML output for calling analytics locally is broken. Eg...

https:https://cdn.site.com/js/trg/local_ga/analytics.js