I need some help with google analytics, gtag and gtm scripts
This is how I am generating the partytown snippet in webpack ->
const snippetText = partytownSnippet({
debug: config.env !== 'production',
forward: [
'dataLayer.push',
'GoogleAnalyticsObject',
'ga',
'gtag'
],
resolveUrl: (url, _location, type) => {
const proxyScriptHosts = [
'www.google-analytics.com',
'www.googletagmanager.com',
];
if (type === 'script' && !!url && proxyScriptHosts.find((proxyScriptHost) => url.host.includes(proxyScriptHost))) {
const proxyUrl = new URL('https://my-proxy.com/api/proxy');
proxyUrl.searchParams.append('url', url.href);
return proxyUrl;
}
return url;
}
});
Then I insert this snippet in my index.html file like this -
<script type="text/javascript">{snippetText}</script>
Now I need to load 3 scripts for my app, this is where I need help to understand what I am doing wrong -
this is how I am loading the google analytics script -
<script type="text/partytown">
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
window.gtag = function () {
window.dataLayer.push(arguments);
}
window.GoogleAnalyticsObject = 'ga';
window.ga = function () {
window.ga.q = window.ga.q || [];
window.ga.q.push(arguments);
};
window.ga.l = 1 * new Date();
</script>
<script type="text/partytown" async defer fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js"></script>
in one of my react components, i am initializing google analytics like this ->
window.gtag('js', new Date());
window.gtag('config', gaId, options);
This works perfectly fine, i can see google analytics UA4 requests in the network tab working as expected!!
2. this is how i am loading the gtag script -
<script type="text/partytown" async defer fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=${gtagId}"></script>
this is how i am loading the gtm script -
<script type="text/partytown" async defer fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=${gtmId}"></script>
<script type="text/partytown">
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
window.dataLayer.push({ 'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(), event: 'gtm.js' });
</script>
Gtag and GTM scripts aren't working, none of the events are being sent for them, please help me understand. I need ga, gtag, and gtm all 3 in my case working together
Please help me with this, i've been stuck on it for quite some time, need to understand the right way to do this
I have searched in the official partytown docs and read various blogs online, this is as far as I've gotten
oo very interesting, this is my advice: To get gtag and GTM working, you need to make sure the following things:
You have created a gtag tracking code in your Google Analytics account and have added the tracking ID in your code: (reCheck)
'<'script type="text/partytown" async defer fetchpriority="low"
src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=${gtagId}"></script'>'
You have created a GTM container in your Google Tag Manager account and have added the container ID in your code: (reCheck)
<script type="text/partytown" async defer fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=${gtmId}"></script>
Make sure the data layer is correctly initialized before the GTM script is executed:
<script type="text/partytown">
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
window.dataLayer.push({ 'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(), event: 'gtm.js' });
</script>
Verify that your GTM container is configured to fire the gtag tracking code, which will send the data to Google Analytics.
If you have done all the above steps correctly, and still the events are not being sent, try checking the network tab in the browser's developer tools to see if there are any errors being returned for the gtag or GTM requests. If there are errors, fix them, and try again.
I've been spending a bit of time developing an MVP at quickcypher.com. I wanted to start putting in some analytics, and it worked great for just tracking total visits, but things went south when I tried to track different URLs on my site that uses React Router.
My approach was this: Setup a GA tag that fires on some pages, using a trigger for a custom "pageview" event. When things did fire, I would set the field page to "/rap" for example. I was firing the event in the "componentDidMount" method of the top level component for each of my views. Using the debugger, I saw the event fire as expected, but for the life of me I can't get GA to acknowledge the event. GA works as expected when I simplify the tag to fire on "all pages", so I'm assuming it has something to do with React.
Has anyone successfully implemented this or run into similar problems? Is my approach all wrong? Hoping for some guidance...cheers!
A bit late to the party here, but react router should need no special code to integrate with GTM. Just drop the GTM script on your page (immediately after the opening <body> tag as recommended) and let your app run as normal.
In GTM create a custom trigger for history change.
You can fire it on all history changes.
Or only on some of them. Only on your production hostname, for example.
Then add a tag for your google analytics (or whatever) and configure it to fire on your history change event by clicking "More" under "Fire On" and selecting the trigger created above.
It's also important to change the Advanced Settings of our tag to fire once per event instead of once per page. Without this, the tag will only fire on the initial page load.
This could be due to misconfiguration of your google analytics account, but assuming that you can fire the initial pageview event back to GA, here is a recipe that taps into react-router's willTransitionTo hook. It also uses react-google-analytics. First npm install react-google-analytics.
Then configure your app like so:
var React = require('react');
var Router = require('react-router');
var Route = Router.Route;
var DefaultRoute = Router.DefaultRoute;
var RouteHandler = Router.RouteHandler;
var ga = require('react-google-analytics');
var GAInitiailizer = ga.Initializer;
// some components mapped to routes
var Home = require('./Home');
var Cypher = require('./Cypher');
var App = React.createClass({
mixins: [Router.State],
statics: {
willTransitionTo: function(transition, params, query, props) {
// log the route transition to google analytics
ga('send', 'pageview', {'page': transition.path});
}
},
componentDidMount: function() {
var GA_TRACKING_CODE = 'UA-xxxxx';
ga('create', GA_TRACKING_CODE);
ga('send', 'pageview');
},
render: function() {
return (
<div>
<RouteHandler />
<GAInitiailizer />
</div>
);
}
});
var routes = (
<Route path="/" handler={App} >
<DefaultRoute handler={Home} />
<Route name="cypher" path="/cypher" handler={Cypher} />
</Route>
);
Router.run(routes, function (Handler) {
React.render(<Handler />, document.body);
});
module.exports = App;
I'm setting up a new app using AngularJS as the frontend. Everything on the client side is done with HTML5 pushstate and I'd like to be able to track my page views in Google Analytics.
If you're using ng-view in your Angular app you can listen for the $viewContentLoaded event and push a tracking event to Google Analytics.
Assuming you've set up your tracking code in your main index.html file with a name of var _gaq and MyCtrl is what you've defined in the ng-controller directive.
function MyCtrl($scope, $location, $window) {
$scope.$on('$viewContentLoaded', function(event) {
$window._gaq.push(['_trackPageView', $location.url()]);
});
}
UPDATE:
for new version of google-analytics use this one
function MyCtrl($scope, $location, $window) {
$scope.$on('$viewContentLoaded', function(event) {
$window.ga('send', 'pageview', { page: $location.url() });
});
}
When a new view is loaded in AngularJS, Google Analytics does not count it as a new page load. Fortunately there is a way to manually tell GA to log a url as a new pageview.
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '<url>']); would do the job, but how to bind that with AngularJS?
Here is a service which you could use:
(function(angular) {
angular.module('analytics', ['ng']).service('analytics', [
'$rootScope', '$window', '$location', function($rootScope, $window, $location) {
var track = function() {
$window._gaq.push(['_trackPageview', $location.path()]);
};
$rootScope.$on('$viewContentLoaded', track);
}
]);
}(window.angular));
When you define your angular module, include the analytics module like so:
angular.module('myappname', ['analytics']);
UPDATE:
You should use the new Universal Google Analytics tracking code with:
$window.ga('send', 'pageview', {page: $location.url()});
app.run(function ($rootScope, $location) {
$rootScope.$on('$routeChangeSuccess', function(){
ga('send', 'pageview', $location.path());
});
});
Just a quick addition. If you're using the new analytics.js, then:
var track = function() {
ga('send', 'pageview', {'page': $location.path()});
};
Additionally one tip is that google analytics will not fire on localhost. So if you are testing on localhost, use the following instead of the default create (full documentation)
ga('create', 'UA-XXXX-Y', {'cookieDomain': 'none'});
I've created a service + filter that could help you guys with this, and maybe also with some other providers if you choose to add them in the future.
Check out https://github.com/mgonto/angularytics and let me know how this works out for you.
Merging the answers by wynnwu and dpineda was what worked for me.
angular.module('app', [])
.run(['$rootScope', '$location', '$window',
function($rootScope, $location, $window) {
$rootScope.$on('$routeChangeSuccess',
function(event) {
if (!$window.ga) {
return;
}
$window.ga('send', 'pageview', {
page: $location.path()
});
});
}
]);
Setting the third parameter as an object (instead of just $location.path()) and using $routeChangeSuccess instead of $stateChangeSuccess did the trick.
Hope this helps.
I've created a simple example on github using the above approach.
https://github.com/isamuelson/angularjs-googleanalytics
The best way to do this is using Google Tag Manager to fire your Google Analytics tags based on history listeners. These are built in to the GTM interface and easily allow tracking on client side HTML5 interactions .
Enable the built in History variables and create a trigger to fire an event based on history changes.
In your index.html, copy and paste the ga snippet but remove the line ga('send', 'pageview');
<!-- Google Analytics: change UA-XXXXX-X to be your site's ID -->
<script>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X');
</script>
I like to give it it's own factory file my-google-analytics.js with self injection:
angular.module('myApp')
.factory('myGoogleAnalytics', [
'$rootScope', '$window', '$location',
function ($rootScope, $window, $location) {
var myGoogleAnalytics = {};
/**
* Set the page to the current location path
* and then send a pageview to log path change.
*/
myGoogleAnalytics.sendPageview = function() {
if ($window.ga) {
$window.ga('set', 'page', $location.path());
$window.ga('send', 'pageview');
}
}
// subscribe to events
$rootScope.$on('$viewContentLoaded', myGoogleAnalytics.sendPageview);
return myGoogleAnalytics;
}
])
.run([
'myGoogleAnalytics',
function(myGoogleAnalytics) {
// inject self
}
]);
I found the gtag() function worked, instead of the ga() function.
In the index.html file, within the <head> section:
<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=TrackingId"></script>
<script>
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
gtag('js', new Date());
gtag('config', 'TrackingId');
</script>
In the AngularJS code:
app.run(function ($rootScope, $location) {
$rootScope.$on('$routeChangeSuccess', function() {
gtag('config', 'TrackingId', {'page_path': $location.path()});
});
});
Replace TrackingId with your own Tracking Id.
If someone wants to implement using directives then, identify (or create) a div in the index.html (just under the body tag, or at same DOM level)
<div class="google-analytics"/>
and then add the following code in the directive
myApp.directive('googleAnalytics', function ( $location, $window ) {
return {
scope: true,
link: function (scope) {
scope.$on( '$routeChangeSuccess', function () {
$window._gaq.push(['_trackPageview', $location.path()]);
});
}
};
});
For those of you using AngularUI Router instead of ngRoute can use the following code to track page views.
app.run(function ($rootScope) {
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeSuccess', function (event, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams) {
ga('set', 'page', toState.url);
ga('send', 'pageview');
});
});
If you're using ui-router you can subscribe to the $stateChangeSuccess event like this:
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeSuccess', function (event) {
$window.ga('send', 'pageview', $location.path());
});
For a complete working example see this blog post
Use GA 'set' to ensure routes are picked up for Google realtime analytics. Otherwise subsequent calls to GA will not show in the realtime panel.
$scope.$on('$routeChangeSuccess', function() {
$window.ga('set', 'page', $location.url());
$window.ga('send', 'pageview');
});
Google strongly advises this approach generally instead of passing a 3rd param in 'send'.
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/single-page-applications
Developers creating Single Page Applications can use autotrack, which includes a urlChangeTracker plugin that handles all of the important considerations listed in this guide for you. See the autotrack documentation for usage and installation instructions.
I am using AngluarJS in html5 mode. I found following solution as most reliable:
Use angular-google-analytics library. Initialize it with something like:
//Do this in module that is always initialized on your webapp
angular.module('core').config(["AnalyticsProvider",
function (AnalyticsProvider) {
AnalyticsProvider.setAccount(YOUR_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TRACKING_CODE);
//Ignoring first page load because of HTML5 route mode to ensure that page view is called only when you explicitly call for pageview event
AnalyticsProvider.ignoreFirstPageLoad(true);
}
]);
After that, add listener on $stateChangeSuccess' and send trackPage event.
angular.module('core').run(['$rootScope', '$location', 'Analytics',
function($rootScope, $location, Analytics) {
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeSuccess', function(event, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams, options) {
try {
Analytics.trackPage($location.url());
}
catch(err) {
//user browser is disabling tracking
}
});
}
]);
At any moment, when you have your user initalized you can inject Analytics there and make call:
Analytics.set('&uid', user.id);
I am using ui-router and my code looks like this:
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeSuccess', function(event, toState, toParams){
/* Google analytics */
var path = toState.url;
for(var i in toParams){
path = path.replace(':' + i, toParams[i]);
}
/* global ga */
ga('send', 'pageview', path);
});
This way I can track different states. Maybe someone will find it usefull.
I personally like to set up my analytics with the template URL instead of the current path. This is mainly because my application has many custom paths such as message/:id or profile/:id. If I were to send these paths, I'd have so many pages being viewed within analytics, it would be too difficult to check which page users are visiting most.
$rootScope.$on('$viewContentLoaded', function(event) {
$window.ga('send', 'pageview', {
page: $route.current.templateUrl.replace("views", "")
});
});
I now get clean page views within my analytics such as user-profile.html and message.html instead of many pages being profile/1, profile/2 and profile/3. I can now process reports to see how many people are viewing user profiles.
If anyone has any objection to why this is bad practise within analytics, I would be more than happy to hear about it. Quite new to using Google Analytics, so not too sure if this is the best approach or not.
I suggest using the Segment analytics library and following our Angular quickstart guide. You’ll be able to track page visits and track user behavior actions with a single API. If you have an SPA, you can allow the RouterOutlet component to handle when the page renders and use ngOnInit to invoke page calls. The example below shows one way you could do this:
#Component({
selector: 'app-home',
templateUrl: './home.component.html',
styleUrls: ['./home.component.css']
})
export class HomeComponent implements OnInit {
ngOnInit() {
window.analytics.page('Home');
}
}
I’m the maintainer of https://github.com/segmentio/analytics-angular. With Segment, you’ll be able to switch different destinations on-and-off by the flip of a switch if you are interested in trying multiple analytics tools (we support over 250+ destinations) without having to write any additional code. 🙂
Merging even more with Pedro Lopez's answer,
I added this to my ngGoogleAnalytis module(which I reuse in many apps):
var base = $('base').attr('href').replace(/\/$/, "");
in this case, I have a tag in my index link:
<base href="/store/">
it's useful when using html5 mode on angular.js v1.3
(remove the replace() function call if your base tag doesn't finish with a slash /)
angular.module("ngGoogleAnalytics", []).run(['$rootScope', '$location', '$window',
function($rootScope, $location, $window) {
$rootScope.$on('$routeChangeSuccess',
function(event) {
if (!$window.ga) { return; }
var base = $('base').attr('href').replace(/\/$/, "");
$window.ga('send', 'pageview', {
page: base + $location.path()
});
}
);
}
]);
If you are looking for full control of Google Analytics's new tracking code, you could use my very own Angular-GA.
It makes ga available through injection, so it's easy to test. It doesn't do any magic, apart from setting the path on every routeChange. You still have to send the pageview like here.
app.run(function ($rootScope, $location, ga) {
$rootScope.$on('$routeChangeSuccess', function(){
ga('send', 'pageview');
});
});
Additionaly there is a directive ga which allows to bind multiple analytics functions to events, like this: