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feat(website): cookieless PostHog analytics, download clicks and a Store campaign ID - #1249

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Summary

The site measures its audience and its download clicks with PostHog Cloud EU, without cookies.

  • src/analytics.ts is a Docusaurus client module that runs on getopenscreen.com only. posthog-js loads as its own chunk, so it never delays the first paint.
    • cookieless_mode: "always" and person_profiles: "never": nothing is stored in the browser, so no consent banner. The project counts visitors with PostHog's server-side daily hash, and it discards IP addresses.
  • download_clicked: one delegated listener covers every release-asset or Microsoft Store installer link, on the landing page, /download/ and any page. It sends the asset kind, the release tag and the file name.
  • cid=website on every Microsoft Store link, docs included, in all eight languages. Installs that start from the site show up as their own campaign in Partner Center. The installer link uses the query Microsoft's own badge generator emits (referrer=appbadge&cid=…). llms.txt and the structured data keep the canonical URL.

The site's "no analytics" claims describe the desktop app, not the website, so they are untouched here. The app's own ping, and the wording it needs, come in a separate PR.

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Type of change

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Release impact

  • No release note needed

Desktop impact

  • Not platform-specific

Testing

  • npm run typecheck: passes.
  • npm test: 43/43, including a new downloadClick test.
  • English build: posthog-js sits in its own chunk, 300 KB, and the main bundle holds only the init.
  • In the browser, with a build temporarily enabled on localhost: a page view on load, then a download_clicked beacon when a DMG link is clicked.
  • Not yet checked: real events in the PostHog project. They will show in its Live events after deploy.

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  • New Features
    • Added cookieless analytics to measure clicks on download links.
    • Microsoft Store links across the website and its translations now include a referral tracking parameter.

…ostHog

posthog-js loads as its own chunk on getopenscreen.com only, in cookieless mode, so no consent banner. One delegated listener sends download_clicked with the asset kind, release and file name for every release-asset or Store-installer link.
Installs that start from the site now show up under cid=website in Partner Center's Acquisitions report. The installer link uses the query Microsoft's badge generator emits. llms.txt and the structured data keep the canonical URL.
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The website adds cid=website to Microsoft Store links in English and translated documentation. It adds download-link classification and configures cookieless PostHog measurement for recognized download clicks on the configured domain.

Changes: Download attribution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Download URL tagging and classification
website/src/lib/download-target.ts, website/src/lib/download-target.test.ts, website/docs/*, website/i18n/{de,es,fr,ja,pt-BR,zh-CN,zh-TW}/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/current/*
Microsoft Store URLs include cid=website. downloadClick classifies Store and release asset URLs, and tests cover recognized and unrecognized links. Documentation links use the same campaign parameter.

PostHog click measurement

Layer / File(s) Summary
PostHog initialization and click tracking
website/package.json, website/docusaurus.config.ts, website/src/analytics.ts
The website adds posthog-js and loads the analytics module through Docusaurus. On getopenscreen.com, the module initializes PostHog with the configured cookieless settings and captures download_clicked for recognized download links.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Document
  participant Analytics as analytics.ts
  participant DownloadClick as downloadClick
  participant PostHog
  Document->>Analytics: Click event with link
  Analytics->>DownloadClick: Classify link URL
  DownloadClick-->>Analytics: Download details or null
  Analytics->>PostHog: Capture download_clicked with sendBeacon
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c70f5

Website visitors’ ordinary interactions may be sent to PostHog in addition to page views and download clicks. Confirm that broader collection is intended or disable autocapture before deployment.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the three main changes: cookieless PostHog analytics, download click tracking, and Microsoft Store campaign tagging.
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Review comments at @website/src/analytics.ts:
- Around line 11-19: Set autocapture to false in the posthog.init configuration
so PostHog captures only page views and the explicitly recognized download
clicks, without changing the existing cookieless settings.

Review comments at @website/src/lib/download-target.ts:
- Line 123: Replace the `href` regex-only classification with URL parsing, then
validate the parsed hostname exactly and require the expected OpenScreen GitHub
repository path before extracting the release and file; do not classify matches
found only in query strings or another project’s release URL.

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  • website/docs/faq.md
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  • website/docs/intro.md
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  • website/i18n/de/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/current/installation.md
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  • website/i18n/zh-TW/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/current/intro.md
  • website/package.json
  • website/src/analytics.ts
  • website/src/lib/download-target.test.ts
  • website/src/lib/download-target.ts

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