electerious / electerious/Ackee

Enhancing fallback referrer

Open
#300 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub
Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
4.7k
Forks
384
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

**Problem**
As many apps refer via a referrer parameter in the url called `ref` but ackee uses `source` as the parameter this leads to many refs untracked.

**Solution:**
Create a alias of the `source` param called `ref` so if any app referrs via the `ref` param it will also get tracked.

Ik that there is a fallback referrer but this does not catch all refs.

I see if I have some spare time to create a PR. :)

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by locating the handling of the existing `source` URL parameter and the fallback referrer logic. Confirm how an alias named `ref` should be accepted and verify that referrals using it are tracked the same way as `source`, using any relevant project tests or tracking flow available there.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
analytics, backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.