How/where to integrate the javaScript Internal search tracking

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Hi guys, I’ve been looking around for an answer to my question for a while, but can’t seem to find it.

I want to track the internal site searches, but the URL-Parameter is encoded, so I can’t do it via the GET-parameter. Thus I looked into other options (JavaScript and API). My developers say that the JavaScript option could work (see screenshot)

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However, I have never worked with Matomo before and I have absolutely no idea exactly where to install this code (in the header, the body etc.). Any advice on this?

Thanks!

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Hi,

This depends on how your website is built.

If the search is done browser-side (so a Javascript request initializes the search) then you simply call this code whenever you do the search.

When the search is a normal page, then the easiest way is to do it in the normal tracking code and instead of trackPageView you call the trackSiteSearch code.