N.B. USING GA IS ILLEGAL IN SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. There are efforts made to create stripped down versions of Google Analytics version 4. This helps to speed up your site instead of loading the GA4 official library script. However, the stripped down versions support the basic or essential tracki…

You can also just replace the default analytics file by creating /layouts/_internal/google_analytics.html. This way you can just use the default GA param of Hugo googleAnalytics = "" If the theme is using Hugo’s default GA call, you don’t need to add a call to a custom partial. Makes switching th…

I was avoiding having to interrupt internal template functions. But anyone can use your feature if they prefer it.

I have created mine as a universal approach, so can be used by passing in <head> of any site. If we want to integrate it with Hugo’s config file, that’s not too difficult. Just in minified script replace G-XXXXXXXXXX with reference to config file with {{ .Site.Params.google.analytics }} and then pu…

Hi, Worth to add to the first post that James solution is using TypeScrypt and mine is using JavaScript Vanilla. Both great, and I see that James implements a lot of good things in his which I am trying to implement in mine as well along with my learning curve. ps. Just updated mine to version 1.0…

[image] idarek: Worth to add to the first post that James solution is using TypeScrypt and mine is using JavaScript Vanilla. The CDN section uses vanilla JS, which I used in this tutorial. If you can, refactor your code to split the tracking part from the main code as he has, I will redo the …

I implemented this with pleasure only to discover the same night that Austria and France have banned GA already. I don’t think there is a work around for that so I guess we have to do without it?

If it is due to GDPR matters, then that’s beyond the scope of this script. You can google how to make GA4 GDPR friendly.

Hello I’m new! when I get the code on my site I get the error: Error: add site dependencies: load resources: loading templates: "/home/alova/Projects/Websites/mysite/layouts/partials/analytics.html:1:1": parse failed: template: partials/analytics.html:1: function "withsite" not defined Also how doe…

[image] Xanrer: Hello I’m new! when I get the code on my site I get the error: Error: add site dependencies: load resources: loading templates: "/home/alova/Projects/Websites/mysite/layouts/partials/analytics.html:1:1": parse failed: template: partials/analytics.html:1: function "withsite" not d…

Thank you! I think it works now, google analytics still gives me the “Data collection isn’t active for your website.” warning but I just saw 2 users visited the site. Is there a way to test it?

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