Monday, Mar 9, 2026
shippedAnalytics, visitor counter, and support links for chatcops landing
Anurag Verma shipped analytics tracking, a Redis-powered visitor counter, a support ribbon, and live GitHub star integration to the chatcops website, then merged the work to production.
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All changes landed in codercops/chatcops across two pull requests and a production merge. The main feature addition [1] included Google Analytics (G-GLYL9J6QYX) instrumentation on the landing page and all Starlight documentation pages. Verma built a visitor counter powered by Upstash Redis that tracks both daily and total visits with session-based deduplication to avoid overcounting, sharing the Redis instance with the ogcops project. A diagonal corner support ribbon appeared in the top-right with a Buy Me a Coffee and PayPal dropdown. The Hero button and Header navigation now display a live GitHub star count fetched from the repository. The site URL was corrected from chatcops.codercops.com to chat.codercops.com. Verma also added a website development section to CONTRIBUTING.md [2] to document the setup for future contributors. Both feature branch [3] and production merge [5] were pushed through on the same day.
Sources
- feat: add analytics, visitor counter, support ribbon, and GitHub stars · codercops/chatcops
- docs: add website development section to CONTRIBUTING.md · codercops/chatcops
- Merge pull request #22 from anurag629/dev · codercops/chatcops
- Release: analytics, visitor counter, support ribbon, GitHub stars, and site URL fix · codercops/chatcops
- Merge pull request #23 from codercops/dev · codercops/chatcops