visitData

visitData emulates the source, medium, campaign, content and term data just like Google Analytics does it (ga.js).

Since there is no way to extract this information from ga.js directly, you need a library like visitData to do it.

visitData is used on over 40 million page loads every week, just from the CDN:

Questions / Contact

If you have any questions for this, drop me an email at ilkkapel@gmail.com

Include from cdn

⚠️ note, the CDN location has changed. Read why from the Announcement.

Here's the file you can include in your web page directly from CDN: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/visitdata/dist/visitdata.umd.js

Supported module formats

• CommonJS: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/visitdata/dist/visitdata.cjs.js
• UMD: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/visitdata/dist/visitdata.umd.js
• ESM: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/visitdata/dist/visitdata.esm.js

Install with npm

npm install visitdata

Build from source code

clone this repository and then

npm install
npm run build

Usage

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/visitdata/dist/visitdata.umd.js"></script>
<script>console.log(visitData.get());</script>

<!-- or, and this you can copy into a javascript console without the <script> tag too for testing -->

<script>
  await import('https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/visitdata/dist/visitdata.umd.js')
  console.log(visitData.get())
</script>

visitData.get() will return an object like

{
  "source": "google",
  "medium": "organic"
}

You can also run visitData.rawData() which will return a lot more information

The results are cached with sessionStorage, so subsequent page views in the same session will return the original result.