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Google Analytics Proxy using Nginx to bypass Adblock and other blockers
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server { | |
listen 80; | |
server_name your.domain.com; | |
location = /analytics.js { | |
# you have to compile nginx with http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_sub_module.html (this is not default) | |
# and http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html (it's a default module) | |
proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding ""; | |
sub_filter 'www.google-analytics.com' 'your.domain.com'; | |
sub_filter_types *; | |
sub_filter_once off; | |
proxy_pass https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js; | |
break; | |
} | |
location / { | |
proxy_pass http://www.google-analytics.com/; | |
} | |
} |
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(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ | |
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), | |
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) | |
})(window,document,'script','//your.domain.com/analytics.js','ga'); | |
# after this run your regular ga code | |
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXX-Y', 'auto'); | |
ga('set', 'userId', 'your logged user id'); | |
ga('send', 'pageview'); |
Please keep in mind if people are going out of their way to block GA, they probably really do not want their data being collected by Google
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Some adblockers are strict and even block urls like
'/r/collect/'
Sot he trick is to replace
sub_filter 'r/collect' 'rrr/upstreamer';
then add a block of code