Cloudflare Workers Parking Page with Analytics⚓︎

Summary⚓︎

I purchased the domain technicality.com, although I currently don't have anything to serve on it. Because of this, I'm currently parking the domain. With the domain being hosted on Cloudflare, I want to serve the parking page, but I'm curious to know if such a domain would log any traffic. While doing this is not difficult, I wouldn't be able to add the tracking snippet to a header as the parking page is being served through Workers.

Workers⚓︎

Due to this, I created a new script with minor tweaks for this site compared to the domains on my other parking page. The script is as follows:

addEventListener('fetch', event => {
    event.respondWith(handleRequest(event.request))
  })

  /**
   * Respond to the request
   * @param {Request} request
   */
  async function handleRequest(request) {

  let modifiedHeaders = new Headers()

    modifiedHeaders.set('Content-Type', 'text/html')
    modifiedHeaders.append('Pragma', 'no-cache')

    return new Response(maintenancepage, {headers: modifiedHeaders})
  }
  let maintenancepage = `

  <!doctype html>
  <title>Site Maintenance</title>
  <script defer data-domain="technicality.com" data-api="/data/api/event" src="/data/js/script.js"></script>
  <style>
    body { 
          text-align: center; 
          padding: 150px; 
          background: url('https://cdn.levine.io/uploads/images/gallery/2021-07/scaled-1680-/us9bDXP8mvzQCl8f-cshong-idt3b9dzjsq-unsplash-2400x1349.jpg') no-repeat center center fixed; 
          background-size: cover;
          -webkit-background-size: cover;
          -moz-background-size: cover;
          -o-background-size: cover;
        }

      .content {
          background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.75); 
          background-size: 100%;      
          color: inherit;
          padding: 1px 100px 10px 100px;
          border-radius: 15px;        
      }

    h1 { font-size: 40pt;}
    body { font: 20px Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333; }
    article { display: block; text-align: left; width: 75%; margin: 0 auto; }
    a:hover { color: #333; text-decoration: none; }
  </style>

 <article> 
    <div class="background">
      <div class="content">
        <h1>We&rsquo;ll be back soon!</h1>
          <p>This page is currently unavailable as it's undergoing maintenance.</p>
          <p>Please check back soon...</p>
          <p>You can use <span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a style="color: #000000;" href="https://cachedview.com/">https://cachedview.com/</a></strong></span> in the mean time.</p>
          <p>&mdash; <B><font color="red">{</font><B><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a style="color: #000000;" href="mailto:contact@technicality.com">Dave</a></strong></span></B><font color="red">}</font></p>
      </div>
    </div>
  </article>
  `;

Once the script was created, I did the following to enable it:

Open the technicality.com domain
Select Workers
Select Add Route
Set the route to www.technicality.com and select the technicality Worker.

This allowed for the parking page to be enabled. The next step was to enable Plausible Analytics.

Plausible Analytics⚓︎

Since the Plausible Workers script already exists, it was simply a matter of applying the script to the technicality.com domain.

Open the technicality.com domain
Select Workers
Select Add Route
Set the route to *.technicality.com/data/* and select the plausible Worker.

Once completed, add the domain to plausible.io.