Setup a Reverse Proxy

Tracking via a Reverse Proxy helps you send events using your own domain. As a result you are less likely to be intercepted by tracking blockers and be able to track more usage data.

Please use at least version 1.6.0 of @spindl-xyz/attribution or @spindl-xyz/attribution-lite for this.

What happens under the hood that we forward the data to Spindl servers via a Reverse Proxy domain:

Here are several easy ways to implement this. Here are a few simple tutorials:

• Next.js

• Cloudflare

• Netlify (if you're using them as a hosting provider)

You can also use other services that support Reverse Proxies. Here are a a few popular hosting providers and their documentation:

• Amazon Web Services: API Gateway

• Microsoft Azure: API Management

• Google Cloud: API Gateway