Svelte (Vite / Client-Side)

A client-side Svelte app built with Vite (npm create vite@latest -- --template svelte) serves a single index.html at the project root. Add the snippet there and it loads on every route.

Get your tracking snippet

In your Rybbit dashboard, open Site Settings → Tracking Script and copy your snippet. It looks like this:

<script src="https://app.rybbit.io/api/script.js?siteId=YOUR_SITE_ID" defer></script>

YOUR_SITE_ID is the numeric ID of your site. If you self-host Rybbit, app.rybbit.io is the domain of your own instance.

Add the snippet to Svelte

Open index.html at the root of your project and paste the snippet inside <head>:

index.html

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="/vite.svg" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>My Svelte App</title>
    <script src="https://app.rybbit.io/api/script.js?siteId=YOUR_SITE_ID" defer></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="app"></div>
    <script type="module" src="/src/main.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

Placing it just before </body> also works, but <head> lets the script start loading sooner.

Verify installation

Open your live site in a new tab and click through a few pages. Within a few seconds the pageviews appear in the Rybbit dashboard.

If nothing shows up:

View the page source and search for script.js?siteId= to confirm the snippet is on the page.
Open the browser Network tab and check that script.js returns 200 and that POST requests go to /api/track.
Disable ad blockers, or set up a proxy so the script loads from your own domain.
See the script troubleshooting guide for other common causes.

Track custom events

Call window.rybbit.event() from any Svelte component:

src/lib/ActionButton.svelte

<script>
  function handleAction() {
    if (window.rybbit) {
      window.rybbit.event("user_action", { component: "ActionButton" });
    }
  }
</script>

<button on:click={handleAction}>Perform action</button>

Troubleshooting

Pageviews missing after navigation: Rybbit tracks History API and hash navigations, which covers routers such as svelte-routing and svelte-spa-router. If a route change is still not recorded, call window.rybbit.pageview() from that router's navigation callback.

Next steps

Track custom events such as signups, purchases and button clicks.
Identify users to connect sessions to accounts.
Proxy the script through your own domain to bypass ad blockers.
Script attributes let you skip or mask URLs and tag events.