Middleman-Piwik

middleman-piwik is an extension for the Middleman static site generator that ease the use of the Piwik web analytics platform.

Just add gem "middleman-piwik" to your existing Gemfile and run bundle install.

activate :piwik do |p|
    p.id = 1
    p.domain = 'piwik.example.net'
    p.url = '/piwik'
end

id is the id of the site, as given by piwik. Usually, it start at 1.

domain is the domain name of the piwik server.

url is the url of the piwik installation. By default, it take the root of the website.

The extension adds 3 new helper to Middleman to add the proper javascript and img in your website

<%= insert_piwik_tracker %>

The one that should be almost always be used is insert_piwik_tracker, which will try to insert the regular javascript code and a img tag as a fallback.

The 2 others insert_piwik_tracker_js and insert_piwik_tracker_img will add only the javascript tracker or the img one.