Piwik Tracks Google Images Search
August 29th, 2011
Now Piwik 1.5.1 don’t tracks google images search as search engine. The traffic from google images sort as referrers.
You can modify piwik code to correct it in SearchEngines.php. In line 1388:
$query = urldecode(trim( self::getParameterFromQueryString($query, ‘prev’)));
$query = str_replace(‘&’, ‘&’, strstr($query, ‘?’));
$searchEngineName = ‘Google Images’;
Replace with follow code:
$prev = self::getParameterFromQueryString($query, ‘prev’);
if($prev != null)
{
$query = urldecode(trim($prev));
$query = str_replace(‘&’, ‘&’, strstr($query, ‘?’));
}
$searchEngineName = ‘Google Images’;
Now You can track the traffic from google images.
Refer: A search engine is counted as a website referer. How can I add the search engine to Piwik?