SMF plugin Global Headers and Footers breaks Matomo tracking code

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Hi,

You can find the links to the blocklists here:
Firefox Anti-tracking - #2 by Lukas

But as you noticed, this has nothing to do with Adblockers (after all you have also renamed piwik.php).

Next idea was an error with the HTTPS config.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=inkscapecommunity.com

But while your server isn’t configured to the latests security, that would only mean more visitors in Matomo as you also support ancient browsers. (But you should still upgrade this in the interest of your visitors)

Next I noticed that my browser only makes a request to https://inkscapecommunity.com/stats/pi.php?idsite=1&rec=1 and not the piwik.js.

And this is the way to find out the real issue. Take a look at your tracking code:

<!-- Piwik -->
<script type="text/javascript">
  var _paq = _paq || [];
  _paq.push([&#39;trackPageView&#39;]);
  _paq.push([&#39;enableLinkTracking&#39;]);
  (function() {
    var u="//inkscapecommunity.com/stats/";
    _paq.push([&#39;setTrackerUrl&#39;, u+&#39;pi.php&#39;]);
    _paq.push([&#39;setSiteId&#39;, 1]);
    var d=document, g=d.createElement(&#39;script&#39;), s=d.getElementsByTagName(&#39;script&#39;)[0];
    g.type=&#39;text/javascript&#39;; g.async=true; g.defer=true; g.src=u+&#39;pi.js&#39;; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s);
  })();
</script>
<noscript><p><img src="//inkscapecommunity.com/stats/pi.php?idsite=1" style="border:0;" alt="" /></p></noscript>
<!-- End Piwik Code -->

Your Javascript is invalid as all quotes have been replaced with &#39; and therefore didn’t do anything. All data you received was from the image tracker (that is only a fallback if JS is disabled and is very inaccurate).

<!-- Piwik Image Tracker-->
<img src="https://inkscapecommunity.com/stats/pi.php?idsite=1&rec=1" style="border:0" alt="" />
<!-- End Piwik -->

So to fix this, repair your Javascript and then kick out the Image Tracker block as it would send the data a second time to Matomo doubling your requests. (And you already have the image tracker above in a <noscript>.