Use Cases

These are the situations we had in mind when building Smart Local Google Analytics. They are our suggestions, not a limit. Your site will have its own needs, so adapt them as you see fit, and you may well find a use for it that we haven't thought of.

New Joomla site adding Google Analytics

Situation: you want GA4 or Tag Manager on your site, loaded only after visitors consent.
How it can help:
- Enter your tracking ID and let managed mode inject the script after consent
- Offer a clear accept or decline choice in the consent dialog

Template that already includes tracking code

Situation: your template or another extension adds GA/GTM code that you cannot remove.
How it can help:
- Leave the tracking ID empty and use legacy mode
- Existing scripts are stripped until the visitor accepts, with no template editing

Privacy-focused site

Situation: you want fewer direct requests from your visitors' browsers to Google.
How it can help:
- Serve the tracking script from your own domain with local script hosting
- Refresh the local copy on your own schedule

Audience across regions

Situation: you want the consent dialog shown to visitors with EU, EEA or UK browser languages, and other visitors handled differently.
How it can help:
- Turn on geo-detection, which reads the browser language and uses no external API
- Choose what happens for other visitors: auto-agree, show the dialog, or skip the plugin

Pages that should stay free of tracking

Situation: checkout, login or legal pages should not run analytics, or your own team's visits distort your statistics.
How it can help:
- Select pages by menu item, component or URL pattern with page rules
- Never track chosen user groups, such as Super Users or Managers

Situation: the dialog needs to fit your site's design and wording.
How it can help:
- Choose a theme or custom colors, including dark mode
- Pick from four positions and four animations
- Set your own title, text and privacy policy link

Demo or preview site

Situation: you want to show the banner, or preview its settings before going live, without real tracking.
How it can help:
- Turn on demo mode: the banner always appears, with no cookies and no tracking scripts