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I'm considering enabling Cloudflare for my site, which will make it so that static content is loaded from their servers instead of mine. If that's the case, how can I tally the request in our analytics platform for that piece of static content? How can I know how many times it was downloaded?

Currently we handle this server-side. That is, when somebody requests a PDF, we use an API to tally that in our analytics tool. But we'll never see the request at all if things are working properly, so....how to handle this?

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  • Well Matomo tracks downloads of files automatically. If the URL doesn't have a specific (e.g. .pdf) file ending, you may need to add a class to the link: developer.matomo.org/guides/…
    – lw1.at
    Commented Dec 17, 2018 at 9:56
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    Only if those files are clicked from our website. If they're shared and clicked elsewhere Matomo doesn't have any idea. That's why we do server side tracking for these.
    – mlissner
    Commented Dec 17, 2018 at 20:51
  • That makes sense. But if you neither control the website people are coming from nor the site delivering the data, you don't really have any data to record.
    – lw1.at
    Commented Dec 18, 2018 at 9:53
  • There must be a solution for this, right? Some kind of API or something? I find it hard to believe that people give up tracking when they enable a CDN.
    – mlissner
    Commented Dec 18, 2018 at 22:55
  • Maybe there is some way to get the access.log. Then you could import it into Matomo.
    – lw1.at
    Commented Dec 21, 2018 at 20:16

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