Minimal Google Analytics Snippet

A simple snippet for tracking page views on your website.

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A simple snippet for tracking page views on your website.

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A simple snippet for tracking page views on your website without having to add external libraries. Also works for single page applications made with the likes of react and vue.js.

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Simple Analytics AI

This is cool, so you have still the power of Google but more control of what they receive from your users? I think this will also disable tracking because it's not on the google-analytics.com domain, is that true?

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8yr ago

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@harianus Thanks for the feedback! I think it does disable tracking, since the response header doesn't seem to have any cookies attached. As suggested in this HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...) I will also add an option to anonymize the IP address.

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8yr ago

Polite Pop

This is such a cool idea and very well implemented! Well done!! 😻 A couple of suggestions: • Annotated Source Code! 📝 Some JS libraries, like underscore.js, have a version of their source code that's un-minified and annotated with explanations for every line. Could you do that too? I'd love to see what each piece does. It would help bring me piece of mind and allow me to modify it in the future. • More options! 🔘 You're using the official Analytics API to implement this, but it's not obvious how I could work with this API to add functionality on top of your snippet. Perhaps you could add some checkboxes that add functionality to the code — or some snippets after the code as suggestions. • Performance! 🚀 Would you recommend loading this script asynchronously? Why or why not? A notice about this would help me figure out the best practices and whether or not I should be adding this to me bundle or including it on the page as is.

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8yr ago

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@panphora Thanks for your feedback 😺 Added options now. Will also open source the snippet on GitHub.

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8yr ago

I can clearly tell that this was intended to help with Google Analytics. Would it also help with Google Tag Manager (if we're required to use that service for tag insertion for the purposes of allowing 3rd party services to help track users)?

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7yr ago

This is a great tool and want to use it on my Wordpress site. @kunnendavid thanks for creating it. I have no other means to contact you so hope Ok to contact you here, but a little confused on using it with a Wordpress child theme. I am using a child theme by Studiopress used with Genesis framework and a little confused on where I put the snippet in theme Child theme. On your website https://minimalanalytics.com/?re... I tried using questions/feedback tool Feedby.io and send a message to you, I hope it worked. However tried also to signup for Feedby.io as impressed on quickness and lightness of the tool but cannot signup since the button on the website does not work when I put in an email address. thank you

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7yr ago

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Hey Hunters! 👋 I created this yesterday afternoon, since I got some time. 🤔 Problem The problem is, that I have to add the Google Tag Manager and Analytics libraries to my websites, even if I just want to track basic page views. The GTM and Analytics libraries are not only huge (72kB together), but also add two additional requests to my websites. Sometimes it would even slow my website down by over 1 second (mainly caused by GTM). 🛠 Solution As a solution I created this simple snippet I can just add to the HTML of my websites and it's working instantly. It even works for single page applications that have no real page reload, for example applications made with React or Vue.js. It sends page views directly to the Google Analytics API, without the need to add all the extra clutter. Maybe someone else has the same problem. Please let me know what you think! 😻

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8yr ago

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Thanks for all your upvotes! Already got many feature requests for adding an event function.

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8yr ago

JAM SEO tools

Very interesting, thanks David.

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8yr ago

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