docs: instrument docs.seleniumboot.com with GoatCounter - #32
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The docs site had no analytics of any kind — no scripts, no headTags. All 53 doc pages were invisible, which meant the entire quickstart funnel was unmeasured and any CTA landing on docs (including the dev.to post's only link) recorded no referral at all. Uses the same GoatCounter account as seleniumboot.com: cookieless, no personal data, no consent banner needed. Docs and the marketing site report into one GoatCounter site, so raw paths would collide — the apex homepage and the docs homepage both count as "/". An inline settings script namespaces every docs hit under "/docs-site/..." so the two hostnames stay separable in the dashboard. It runs before count.js, which the head tag ordering guarantees. Verified: production build succeeds, and all 54 generated HTML pages carry both the namespacing script and the count.js tag. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes P1-9.
Why
docs-site/docusaurus.config.jshad no analytics of any kind — noscripts, noheadTags, nothing. All 53 doc pages were invisible, so the entire quickstart funnel was unmeasured, and any CTA landing on docs (including the dev.to post's only link) recorded no referral.This is more urgent than when it was filed: the live Show HN points at the GitHub repo, and the repo README's primary links go to
docs.seleniumboot.com. Any traffic it sends lands on the one surface that records nothing.What
Same GoatCounter account as
seleniumboot.com— cookieless, no personal data, no consent banner needed.One wrinkle worth calling out: docs and the marketing site report into a single GoatCounter site, so raw paths collide — the apex homepage and the docs homepage would both count as
/, corrupting the homepage number that gets watched most. An inline settings script namespaces every docs hit under/docs-site/...so the two hostnames stay separable. Head-tag ordering guarantees it runs beforecount.js.Verification
npm run buildsucceedscount.jstag (53 docs + index)build/docs/getting-started.html) — correct endpoint attributewindow.goatcounter={path:function(t){return"/docs-site"+t}}After merge
Deploys via the existing
docs-site/**→ GitHub Pages path. Worth confirming hits appear in GoatCounter under/docs-site/*once it's live.🤖 Generated with Claude Code