Back in the day, much before there was google analytics, there used to be simple visitor counter for webpages. It was just an updating counter which you could link on any page & the page count would be updated each time the page had a hit.
Is there anything simple available for a Blog Page created through Github pages? Not interested in where the traffic comes from or at what time etc. Just the number of hits. Also don't want something like Google Analytics which blocked by a lot of people.
You can add this in your GitHub Profile Readme (or wherever Markdown or HTML are supported):
<p align="center"> <img src="https://komarev.com/ghpvc/?username=GITHUB-USERNAME&label=Profile%20views&color=ce9927&style=flat" alt="GITHUB-USERNAME" /> </p>
Credits: https://github.com/antonkomarev/github-profile-views-counter
There is a GitHub Action that uses GitHub API. It updates daily and does not require any servers or databases. It automatically saves changes into the repository. Go to the template GitHub Insights Template
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Is there any way to display page views based on Google Analytics on a Jekyll site? We’ve been using jekyll-ga plugin, but it hasn’t been updated in a very long time. So updating, for example, google-api-client (to use it with the newest version of Ruby) raises a lot of errors.
It would be great to get page views from Google Analytics in real time (and not only at the time of build). But for now we are looking for any solution which can replace jekyll-ga plugin.
I would appreciate any feedback.
I am creating my personal website (here) using R blogdown (using a Hugo template).
The site is hosted on github and I managed get it to continously integrated with netlify.
I would like to keep track of some visitor analytics.
How can I add a visitor count and some sort of visitor analytics tool?
Can the Netlify be integrated with google analytics or some similar tool?
The blogdown guide has a how-to section detailing how to incorporate Google Analytics for your blogdown page. The example in the documentation using one theme, Xmin, but should be transferable to other Hugo blogdown themes. I have followed it for my own blogdown site.
Add the following snippet to your code in layouts/partials/foot_custom.html that lives under the root directory of your page
{{ template "_internal/google_analytics.html" . }}
Then configure the googleAnalyticsfield in your sites config.toml with your GA credentials.
The blogdown author Yihui details these exact steps in this PR here.
Disclaimer: I work for Netlify.
There are no built-in analytics or other visitor logging at present on our service, so google analytics is a good bet. The New Relic browser agent is another option you can use in the same way. They both count on browsers to run javascript and allow tracking, so the numbers they report should be taken with a grain of salt.
The intended path, though by no means the only one, is to place your GA tags or other code you need to inject into every html page into the injected snippets section on your Build & Deploy settings page.
Note that there is some advanced usage potential around deploy-time conditionals like Branch-dependent variables that isn't immediately obvious. You can see it demonstrated in this article on split testing (the conditionals are usable without split testing).
I have a Wordpress website and have the Personal plan.
My goal is to implement the tracking code of the Google Tag Manager on each site.
When I am on the Wordpress site in the HTML view, I should be able to paste one tracking code as close to the opening <head> tag as possible on every page of my website but this is not possible.
That´s why I had a talk with somebody from the Wordpress Support team and their answer was the following:
I believe the code for Google Analytics is meant to go in the header of the site. Since WordPress.com is a fully managed environment, we don't have access to the header code.
Instead, we have a built in Google Analytics option available as part of the Business upgrade.
The issue is I don´t want to spend 25$ a month just to have Google Analytics integrated on my website. There must be also a way for somebody like me with a Personal plan to implement the tracking codes.
When I tried to implement them, they were not hidden on the website which should not be the case (because "hidden" is in the code).
Did anybody of you have the same issue like I am facing?
P.S.: There are also Plugins for Google Analytics but with my plan I can´t upload any Plugins. :/
I integrated the code on a text widget. It worked just fine. If you dont give title to the widget, its even completly invisible. so dont spend unecessary money
The blog was created in 2010 or 2011 so I do not remember if it was Classic Template that was used. I tried adding my tracking id in the blog settings. I also tried copying the tracking code in the HTML of my template. That did not work I guess because according to the instructions the tracking code should appear right before the </head> tag. I see the tracking code in my source page but there is a lot of script and css code before the </head> tag.
Normally when I add the tracking code in my Ruby on Rails applications the tracking code is immediately found (or at least it was the last time I implemented tracking). However now my account says "tracking not installed". I wonder since it has been a while if I have to wait for the tracking to be recognized.
Your tracking should be immediate. To check if data is being sent to Analytics you can open developer tools in Chrome and go to the networking tab. You should see something like this:
If you see utm.gif being called then Analytics is receiving data. Unless your unique ID code is wrong.
In Blogger though you shouldn't have to do much, there is a setting in the administration panel just for this (image taken from WikiHow - Google Analytics in Blogger:
Just wondered if there is a known issue with GA having trouble tracking a site which has a Wordpress directory?
It seems to be able to track all of my other pages on the site, but we have a /news/ directory which is powered by Wordpress and it doesn't pick this up at all. It is obviously an issue with the fact that this directory is a Wordpress blog, but there must be a way to track it with all of the other pages.
Aaahhh... Sounds like the google analytics tracking code is present on your main site pages, but is not included in the wordpress template that's applied to that sub-section of your site.
The GA tracking code must be visible to google on every page you want to have tracked.
Try 'View Source' in your browser, and check wether the analytics tracking code is present.
If not, you could hard-code the GA tracking code in, or use one of the free WordPress Plugins to do it for you, like 'Google Analytics':
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/googleanalytics/
Hope this helps - post back if you're still having problems!
Rick
It may not be related, but did you check if your blog is indexable? Under Settings -> Privacy you can check if its enabled.
Another option is to install a google analytics plugin for the blog. If you enter the same credentials from your already-in-use GA it should be combined. I'm using this one on my blog and its working.