plain-pageviews

Track pageviews from the client-side.

Installation

Install plain.pageviews and add it to INSTALLED_PACKAGES.

Add PageviewsRouter to your urls.

Add {% pageviews_js %} to your base.html template to include the tracking code on the client side.

Admin integration

from plain.pageviews.admin import UserPageviewsCard


@register_viewset
class UserAdmin(AdminViewset):
    class DetailView(AdminModelDetailView):
        model = User
        cards = [UserPageviewsCard]

FAQs

Why not use server-side middleware?

Originally this was the idea. It turns out that tracking from the backend, while powerful, also means you have to identify all kinds of requests not to track (assets, files, API calls, etc.). In the end, a simple client-side tracking script naturally accomplishes what we're looking for in a more straightforward way.