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Hash-based routing

Vince Analytics integrates automatically with pushState based frontend routers. However, if you’re using a frontend framework that uses the URL hash for routing, you need to take an extra step to install the hash-based tracker instead of the default one.

The hash-based tracker is available by changing your script to load http://localhst:8080/js/script.hash.js instead of the default http://localhst:8080/js/script.js.

Here’s what the full script tag will look like:

<script defer data-domain="yourdomain.com" src="http://localhst:8080/js/script.hash.js"></script>

This tracker will change two things about how events are collected:

  • Trigger pageviews on the hashchange event
  • Normally the hash part of the URL is discarded in your Vince dashboard. In hash-mode, the hash part is preserved in your stats so you can see the different pages your visitors have viewed.