How to track search terms about goatcounter HOT 6 CLOSED

You can add "utm_source", "ref", "src", or "source" as a query parameter, e.g. http://example.com?ref=term. It will then show up as a referrers under that name:

If you also add "campaign" or "utm_campaign" it will also show up under campaigns under that name; for example for http://example.com?campaign=search&ref=term and http://example.com?campaign=search&ref=other:

Getting search terms from e.g. Google is a duplicate of #395 – I did look at this, but abandoned it for reasons I can't recall at the moment.

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@arp242 unfortunately, I use fuse.js which uses /?query=. So, I cannot control that. I don't care much for search terms, but rather how often the search form is used. Is there a way to append a custom parameter?

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Is there a way to append a custom parameter?

You used to be able to, but I removed it as no one was using it to change the defaults, so now it's just a static list.

I don't mind adding something to that, but "query" is a very generic term so I'm a bit hesitant; I think that in most cases people probably don't want to use that as a referrer string.

Can't you change the data that's sent with JS? I think this example is probably fairly close to what you want? https://www.goatcounter.com/help/js#get-query-name-2

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Can't you change the data that's sent with JS? I

Good point. I am not a dev, but I looked at the JS called doing the search and the dev who wrote it added the query thing there. So, it is a matter of changing query to something else. I tried const QUERY_URL_PARAM = 'campaign=search&ref'; but the = and & characters are escaped in the browser.

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What's your website?

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I am working on it with the dev who wrote the search code. If it fails (campaign), I will go with the referrer option.

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