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Analytics Reverse Proxy

Features a standard nginx docker image, configured with self-signed SSL and configurations for:

  • Google Analytics
  • Google Tag Manager

Prerequisites

  • docker
  • docker-compose
  • a network that doesn't block DNS resolution of trackers, like GA/GTM

Usage

  • Build: npm run compose:build
  • Start: npm run compose:up
  • Stop: npm run compose:down

Access the proxy via ports 8080 (HTTP) or 4443 (HTTPS) and host name analytics-proxy.test. You may need to add a hosts file entry 127.0.0.1 analytics-proxy.test.

Configured locations:

  • /gtag/js for Google Tag Manager
  • /analytics.js for Google Analytics
    • /r/c*, /g/c*, /j/c* and /c* to forward to Google Analytics /collect endpoint

Example URLs

  • https://analytics-proxy.test:4443/gtag/js?id=G-SOMEID
  • http://analytics-proxy.test:8080/gtag/js?id=G-SOMEID
  • http://analytics-proxy.test:8080/analytics.js
  • https://analytics-proxy.test:4443/gtm.js?id=GTM-MZJ7DB9
  • http://analytics-proxy.test:8080/g/collect?v=2&tid=G-SOMEID&gtm=3467347as&_p=sdoui38sdk&cid=1616603405.1673937444&ul=en-us&sr=1920x1080&uaW=1&uaa=arm&uab=64&uafvl=some-user-agent&uamb=0&uam=&uap=macOS&uapv=13.1.0&uaw=0&_s=1&sid=1675776631&sct=40&seg=0&dl=some-url&dt=some-text&en=page_view&_ss=1