Keep a reference to your history object. i.e. import { createBrowserHistory } from ‘history’; var history = createBrowserHistory(); ReactDOM.render(( <Router history={history}> […] Then add a listener to record each pageview. (This assumes you’ve already set up the window.ga object in the usual manner.) history.listen((location) => { window.ga(‘set’, ‘page’, location.pathname + location.search); window.ga(‘send’, ‘pageview’); });
Putting it at the end of the <head> section helps ensure the your metrics are tracked even when a user doesn’t let the page finish loading. They used to tell you to put it at the bottom of the page, before they added support for handling partial loading of pages. Directly from Google: One of … Read more
Google Analytics‘ main job is really just generating the reports and statistics about your website, like how many people saw your website yesterday, what web browser they used, which pages were the most popular, etc. The only way it can know this stuff is if you put a “tag” on all of your pages. The … Read more
UPDATE/EDIT – December 5, 2014 : Converted this to community wiki… feel invited to edit and update. UPDATE/EDIT – AUGUST 1, 2014 Google has done it again… they changed the design. But they also made things a bit simpler and more logic. Go to Administration → Property Settings and look for the Delete Property link … Read more
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, $window) … Read more
Well, if Google is cheating on you, you can cheat Google back: This is the user-agent for pageSpeed: “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/536.8 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Page Speed Insights) Chrome/19.0.1084.36 Safari/536.8” You can insert a conditional to avoid serving the analytics script to PageSpeed: <?php if (!isset($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’]) || stripos($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’], ‘Speed Insights’) === false): ?> … Read more
This question remains valid today, however the technology has changed. The old Urchin tracker is deprecated and obsolete. The new asynchronous Google Analytics tracking code uses slightly different code to achieve the same results. Google Analytics Classic – Asynchronous Syntax – ga.js The current syntax for setting the tracking domain to none on google analytics … Read more