https://mereorthodoxy.com/assets/js/page/article-plausible.js?v=QmXKsOUtrWoQdZZx

1/*
2 * Fire a Plausible "Article Read" custom event on post pages, with
3 * title / primary_tag / author props extracted from the rendered DOM.
4 *
5 * Why on 'load' rather than inline: Ghost's proxied Plausible build
6 * replaces window.plausible without replaying the queue shim, so
7 * queued events fired during parse get silently dropped. Waiting for
8 * 'load' guarantees the deferred tracker has installed the real
9 * sender first.
10 */
11window.addEventListener("load", () => {
12  if (!window.plausible) return;
13  const titleEl = document.querySelector(".article-title");
14  const title = titleEl ? titleEl.textContent.trim().slice(0, 200) : document.title;
15
16  // Structural tags are public, so they render as pills and used to win the
17  // primary_tag slot: "featured" and "uncategorized" sit first on a third of
18  // all posts, which filed a third of reads under a non-topic and made
19  // top-topics unusable for comparing demand against output. Skip them and
20  // take the first real topic instead. Issue tags (winter-2026) are the same
21  // problem in a form that grows every quarter, hence the pattern.
22  const NON_TOPIC = ["featured", "uncategorized", "journal", "trivial-link",
23    "mere-fidelity", "earthen-vessels", "passages", "podcast"];
24  const isNonTopic = (slug) =>
25    NON_TOPIC.indexOf(slug) !== -1 || /^(winter|spring|summer|fall|autumn)-\d{4}$/.test(slug);
26
27  const tagEls = document.querySelectorAll(".article-topic-tag[data-tag-slug]");
28  let primary_tag = "";
29  let fallback_tag = "";
30  let author = "";
31  tagEls.forEach((el) => {
32    const slug = el.getAttribute("data-tag-slug") || "";
33    if (!slug) return;
34    if (slug.indexOf("author-") === 0) {
35      if (!author) author = slug.replace(/^author-/, "");
36    } else if (isNonTopic(slug)) {
37      // Keep it only as a last resort: a post tagged nothing but "featured"
38      // should still report something rather than an empty string.
39      if (!fallback_tag) fallback_tag = slug;
40    } else if (!primary_tag) {
41      primary_tag = slug;
42    }
43  });
44  if (!primary_tag) primary_tag = fallback_tag;
45
46  window.plausible("Article Read", {
47    props: { title, primary_tag, author },
48  });
49});