on first view only jetpack wpstats smiley face shows

[kalligator]

On 2/3 sites I tested the plugin it shows just the smiley face http://stats.wordpress.com/g.gif of jetpack wpstats (a stats tracking image) upon first view. On reload it shows the page correctly. The third site that didn't have jetpack wpstats activated played nice.

[mgmartel]

Hi @kalligator, I just tried the plugin with JetPack stats enabled and didn't have the same problem. What theme are you using? Do you have a link where I can see the problem?

[kalligator]

Did you try in private/incognito browser mode? Because I think by default jetpack excludes connected users from stasts collecting.

I'm ~~99%~~ 100% sure it's jetpack's fault. I reverted the theme to twenty fourteen and it was still there. I disabled all plugins except WP-InstantClick & Jetpack and I was getting the same behaviour. With all pluugins active except Jetpack, no problem.

[mgmartel]

Gotcha. I gave up to early giving this a try yesterday. Of course JetPack stats itself is not loaded through WP's own scripts API. But the hack below adds the data-no-instant attribute to the JetPack script:

add_action( 'template_redirect', function(){
    global $stats_footer;

    if ( !$stats_footer ) 
        return;

    $stats_footer = str_replace( 'type="text/javascript">', 'type="text/javascript" data-no-instant>', $stats_footer );
}, 2 );

Unfortunately, this does mean that pageviews after the initial load won't be tracked. It's the inline tracking script itself that's the culprit, so I think we'd need to dive into the JetPack stats JS to figure out how to make it compatible with InstantClick.