Sending events through your own domain

Some browsers and extensions block requests to analytics hosts. Serving the script and the event endpoint from your own domain avoids most of that.

Point the script at your proxy

Use data-api to send events somewhere other than the script’s own host:

<script defer data-domain="example.com"
  data-api="https://example.com/stats/event"
  src="https://example.com/stats/script.js"></script>

Proxy rules

Forward two paths to your Tidemark installation:

Your path	Forwards to
/stats/script.js	https://stats.example.com/js/script.js
/stats/event	https://stats.example.com/api/event

Pass the original client IP in X-Forwarded-For so locations and shields keep working. Make sure the proxy sends the visitor’s User-Agent too.

Note

Tidemark reads the client IP from the first header it finds out of CF-Connecting-IP, X-Client-IP, X-Forwarded-For, X-Real-IP, X-Appengine-User-Ip and True-Client-IP.