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Google Analytics

Connect Google Analytics to the analytics library


This analytics plugin will load google analytics v.4 into your application.

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Installation

npm install analytics
npm install @analytics/google-analytics

How to use

The @analytics/google-analytics package works in the browser. To use, install the package, include in your project and initialize the plugin with analytics.

Below is an example of how to use the browser plugin.

import Analytics from 'analytics'
import googleAnalytics from '@analytics/google-analytics'

const analytics = Analytics({
  app: 'awesome-app',
  plugins: [
    googleAnalytics({
      measurementIds: ['G-abc123']
    })
  ]
})

/* Track a page view */
analytics.page()

/* Track a custom event */
analytics.track('cartCheckout', {
  item: 'pink socks',
  price: 20
})

/* Identify a visitor */
analytics.identify('user-id-xyz', {
  firstName: 'bill',
  lastName: 'murray'
})

After initializing analytics with the googleAnalytics plugin, data will be sent into Google Analytics whenever analytics.identify, analytics.page, or analytics.track are called.

See additional implementation examples for more details on using in your project.

Platforms Supported

The @analytics/google-analytics package works in the browser

Browser usage

The Google Analytics client side browser plugin works with these analytic api methods:

Browser API

import Analytics from 'analytics'
import googleAnalytics from '@analytics/google-analytics'

const analytics = Analytics({
  app: 'awesome-app',
  plugins: [
    googleAnalytics({
      measurementIds: ['G-abc123']
    })
  ]
})

Configuration options for browser

Optiondescription
measurementIds
required - Array.
Google Analytics MEASUREMENT IDs
debug
optional - boolean
Enable Google Analytics debug mode
dataLayerName
optional - string
The optional name for dataLayer object. Defaults to ga4DataLayer.
gtagName
optional - string
The optional name for dataLayer object. Defaults to gtag.
gtagConfig.anonymize_ip
optional - boolean
Enable Anonymizing IP addresses sent to Google Analytics.
gtagConfig.cookie_domain
optional - object
Additional cookie properties for configuring the ga cookie
gtagConfig.cookie_expires
optional - object
Additional cookie properties for configuring the ga cookie
gtagConfig.cookie_prefix
optional - object
Additional cookie properties for configuring the ga cookie
gtagConfig.cookie_update
optional - object
Additional cookie properties for configuring the ga cookie
gtagConfig.cookie_flags
optional - object
Additional cookie properties for configuring the ga cookie
customScriptSrc
optional - string
Custom URL for google analytics script, if proxying calls

Additional examples

Below are additional implementation examples.

Using in HTML

Below is an example of importing via the unpkg CDN. Please note this will pull in the latest version of the package.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Using @analytics/google-analytics in HTML</title>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/analytics/dist/analytics.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/@analytics/google-analytics/dist/@analytics/google-analytics.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      /* Initialize analytics */
      var Analytics = _analytics.init({
        app: 'my-app-name',
        plugins: [
          analyticsGa.init({
            measurementIds: ['G-abc123']
          })
        ]
      })

      /* Track a page view */
      analytics.page()

      /* Track a custom event */
      analytics.track('cartCheckout', {
        item: 'pink socks',
        price: 20
      })

      /* Identify a visitor */
      analytics.identify('user-id-xyz', {
        firstName: 'bill',
        lastName: 'murray'
      })
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    ....
  </body>
</html>
Using in HTML via ES Modules

Using @analytics/google-analytics in ESM modules.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Using @analytics/google-analytics in HTML via ESModules</title>
    <script>
      // Polyfill process.
      // **Note**: Because `import`s are hoisted, we need a separate, prior <script> block.
      window.process = window.process || { env: { NODE_ENV: 'production' } }
    </script>
    <script type="module">
      import analytics from 'https://unpkg.com/analytics/lib/analytics.browser.es.js?module'
      import analyticsGa from 'https://unpkg.com/@analytics/google-analytics/lib/analytics-plugin-ga.browser.es.js?module'
      /* Initialize analytics */
      const Analytics = analytics({
        app: 'analytics-html-demo',
        debug: true,
        plugins: [
          analyticsGa({
            measurementIds: ['G-abc123']
          })
          // ... add any other third party analytics plugins
        ]
      })

      /* Track a page view */
      analytics.page()

      /* Track a custom event */
      analytics.track('cartCheckout', {
        item: 'pink socks',
        price: 20
      })

      /* Identify a visitor */
      analytics.identify('user-id-xyz', {
        firstName: 'bill',
        lastName: 'murray'
      })
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    ....
  </body>
</html>

Fix "double page views"

Google analytics 4 sometimes automatically sends a page view for single page applications. To disable this you will need to go into the settings of your stream and click into "enhanced measurement" section and uncheck the "Page changes based on browser history events" setting. This will make sure only analytics.page() calls will send page views to Google analytics v4.

disable-auto-spa-pageviews

Legacy Google analytics v3

For the older version of google analytics please see the @analytics/google-analytics-v3 package or the GA3 plugin docs

Using GA3 and GA4 together

It is possible to use both GA3 and GA4 together shown below. Just remember GA3 will be deprecated starting in July of 2023

import Analytics from 'analytics'
import googleAnalyticsPlugin from '@analytics/google-analytics'
import googleAnalyticsV3Plugin from '@analytics/google-analytics-v3'

/* Initialize analytics instance */
const analytics = Analytics({
  app: 'my-app',
  plugins: [
    /* Load Google Analytics v4 */
    googleAnalyticsPlugin({
      measurementIds: ['G-abc123'],
    }),
    /* Load Google Analytics v3 */
    googleAnalyticsV3Plugin({
      trackingId: 'UA-11111111-2',
    }),
  ],
})

analytics.page()