Icarus User Guide - Web Analytics Plugins

This article covers web analytics plugins supported by Icarus 5.

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The following web analytics plugins are provided by ppoffice/hexo-component-inferno. Please refer to it for a complete list of supported plugins and their configuration details.

All plugins mentioned below may be blocked by AD blockers. Use them with caution.

Baidu Statistics

Installation Guide

1. Log into Baidu Statistics. Click the “Add new website” button on the “Admin > Site list” page and fill in the site information such as name and homepage URL. Click “OK” to complete site creation.

   
   

2. On the next page, find the ID behind hm.baidu.com/hm.js? and set it as the value of plugins > baidu_analytics > tracking_id in the theme configurations.

   
   

   For example, the following Baidu Statistics code:

   Baidu Statistics code

   <script>
   var _hmt = _hmt || [];
   (function() {
   var hm = document.createElement("script");
   hm.src = "https://hm.baidu.com/hm.js?3f06f2b732a5b1034c989f74e28d0eea";
   var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; 
   s.parentNode.insertBefore(hm, s);
   })();
   </script>

   maps to the following theme configuration:

   _config.icarus.yml

   plugins:
       baidu_analytics:
           tracking_id: 3f06f2b732a5b1034c989f74e28d0eea

Bing Webmaster Tools

Installation Guide

1. Log into Bing - Webmaster Tools. Then, choose “Add your site manually” and enter the URL to your site. Click “Add” button to continue.

   
   

2. In the “Add & verify site” panel, select “HTML Meta Tag” method. Copy value of the content attribute in the HTML meta tag to the plugins > bing_webmaster > tracking_id in the theme configurations.

   
   

   _config.icarus.yml

   plugins:
       bing_webmaster:
           tracking_id: ABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEF

BuSuanZi Web Counter

Installation Guide

1. Set the plugins > busuanzi to true to enable BuSuanZi web counter and display the number of visitors on the header of each blog post and the bottom of the page.

   _config.icarus.yml

   plugins:
       busuanzi: true

CNZZ Statistics

Installation Guide

1. Log into Umeng+. On the dashboard of Umeng+, click “Create new application” > “Web application”. Then, fill in your site information such as “website name”, “site domain name”, and “site homepage URL”. Click “Confirm adding the site” after finished.

   
   

2. Find the HTML code in the “text style” row on the get installation code page. Copy the values of id and web_id to the plugins > cnzz > id and web_id in the theme configurations, respectively.

   
   

   For example, the following CNZZ installation code:

   CNZZ installation code

   <script type="text/javascript" src="https://s9.cnzz.com/z_stat.php?id=123456789000&web_id=123456789000"></script>

   maps to the following theme configuration:

   _config.icarus.yml

   plugins:
       cnzz:
           id: 123456789000
           web_id: 123456789000

Google Analytics

Installation Guide

1. Log into Google Analytics and click the “Admin” on the left side of the user dashboard.

2. On the admin page, click the “Create Property” button and set “What do you want to measure?” to “Web”. Click the “Continue” button after that.

   
   

3. Then, fill in the Website Name, Website URL, Industry Category, and Reporting Time Zone. Click the “Create” button to finish the property creation.

   
   

4. Find the value of “Tracking ID”, e.g., “UA-12345678-0”, on the “Tracking Code” page. Set it to the plugins > google_analytics > tracking_id in the theme configurations to enable the Google Analytics plugin.

   
   

   _config.icarus.yml

   plugins:
       google_analytics:
           tracking_id: UA-12345678-0

Hotjar

Installation Guide

1. Log into Hotjar and click the ➕ (plus sign) > “Add new site” link on the top left of the page.

2. Fill in the “WEBSITE”, “SITE TYPE”, and “SITE OWNER”, then click the “Add Site” button.

   
   

3. Find the newly created site on the “Sites & Organizations” page you have been redirected to. Click the “Tracking Code” button on the right.

   
   

4. Copy the value of “Site ID” (e.g., 1234567) from the popup dialog to plugins > hotjar > site_id in the theme configurations to enable the Hotjar plugin.

   
   

   _config.icarus.yml

   plugins:
       hotjar:
           site_id: 1234567

Statcounter

Installation Guide

1. Log into Statcounter. Click “Add New Project” button in the “Projects” page.

   
   

2. Fill in the website URL and project title in the “Add Project” page. Tweak rest of the project settings if you need to. Then, click the “Add Project” button.

   
   

3. Click “Continue to Default Installation” in the “Platform Check Complete” page.

   
   

4. Finally, in the “Insert the Code on Your Website” page, copy the value of sc_project and sc_security variable in the HTML snippet to plugins > statcounter > project and plugins > statcounter > security in the theme configurations, respectively.

   
   

   For example, the following Statcounter code:

   Statcounter code

   <script type="text/javascript">
   var sc_project=12345678; 
   var sc_invisible=1; 
   var sc_security="abcdef12"; 
   var sc_https=1; 
   </script>
   <script type="text/javascript"
   src="https://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"
   async></script>
   ...

   maps to the following theme configuration:

   _config.icarus.yml

   plugins:
      statcounter:
         project: 12345678
         security: abcdef12

Twitter Conversion Tracking

Installation Guide

1. Follow How to set up conversion tracking to enable universal website tag of Twitter conversion tracking.

2. Find the init (Pixel ID) in your conversion tracking code. Copy its value to plugins > twitter_conversion_tracking > pixel_id in the theme configurations.

   For example, the following Twitter conversion tracking code:

   Twitter conversion tracking code

   <!-- Twitter universal website tag code -->
   <script>
   !function(e,n,u,a){e.twq||(a=e.twq=function(){a.exe?a.exe.apply(a,arguments):
   a.queue.push(arguments);},a.version='1',a.queue=[],t=n.createElement(u),
   t.async=!0,t.src='//static.ads-twitter.com/uwt.js',s=n.getElementsByTagName(u)[0],
   s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s))}(window,document,'script');
   // Insert Twitter Pixel ID and Standard Event data below
   twq('init','abcdef');
   twq('track','PageView');
   </script>
   <!-- End Twitter universal website tag code -->

   maps to the following theme configuration:

   _config.icarus.yml

   plugins:
      twitter_conversion_tracking:
         pixel_id: abcdef

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