Reputation: 1080
I hosted my portfolio (which is still under development) on github pages. It's just a web app with static content. And I needed to add Google Analytics to my portfolio and get the number of visits (mainly to get familiar with the process). I found out react-ga module which can be used to configure Google Analytics on React Apps (which created using create-react-app).
And followed this tutorial and configured it and hosted. And I checked the site with test traffic but Google Analytics dashboard doesn't update. What maybe the case ? It should work according to the tutorial. As I'm new to Google Analytics it's hard for me to figure out the issue.
This is my App.js
import React, { Component } from "react";
import HeaderList from "./components/Header";
import "./App.css";
import { Layout } from "antd";
import { Router, Route, Switch } from "react-router-dom";
import createHistory from "history/createBrowserHistory";
import ReactGA from 'react-ga';
import Keys from './config/keys';
import AboutMe from "./components/AboutMe";
import Skills from "./components/Skills";
import Contact from "./components/Contact";
import Projects from "./components/Projects";
const { Content } = Layout;
ReactGA.initialize(Keys.GOOGLE_TRACKING_ID); //Unique Google Analytics tracking number
function fireTracking() {
ReactGA.pageview(window.location.hash);
}
class App extends Component {
render() {
return (
<Router onUpdate={fireTracking} history={createHistory({ basename: process.env.PUBLIC_URL })}>
<div>
<Layout>
<HeaderList />
<Content className="Content">
<div className="RouteContent">
<Switch>
<Route exact path="/" component={AboutMe} />
<Route path="/skills" component={Skills} />
<Route path="/projects" component={Projects} />
<Route path="/Contact" component={Contact} />
</Switch>
</div>
</Content>
</Layout>
</div>
</Router>
);
}
}
export default App;
Upvotes: 0
Views: 7180
Reputation: 4853
The pageviews can be generated in a useEffect
function; withRouter
is used to inject props on route changes:
import React, { useEffect } from 'react';
import { Switch, Route, withRouter } from 'react-router-dom';
import ReactGA from 'react-ga';
import Keys from './config/keys';
//Unique Google Analytics tracking number
ReactGA.initialize(Keys.GOOGLE_TRACKING_ID);
const App = () => {
useEffect( () => {
// This line will trigger on a route change
ReactGA.pageview(window.location.pathname + window.location.search);
});
return (/* Code here */);
}
export default withRouter(App);
You need to generate a pageview in componentDidMount and componentDidUpdate:
componentDidMount = () => ReactGA.pageview(window.location.pathname + window.location.search);
componentDidUpdate = () => ReactGA.pageview(window.location.pathname + window.location.search);
So, final code:
import React, { Component } from "react";
import HeaderList from "./components/Header";
import "./App.css";
import { Layout } from "antd";
import { Router, Route, Switch } from "react-router-dom";
import createHistory from "history/createBrowserHistory";
import ReactGA from 'react-ga';
import Keys from './config/keys';
import AboutMe from "./components/AboutMe";
import Skills from "./components/Skills";
import Contact from "./components/Contact";
import Projects from "./components/Projects";
const { Content } = Layout;
ReactGA.initialize(Keys.GOOGLE_TRACKING_ID); //Unique Google Analytics tracking number
class App extends Component {
componentDidMount = () => ReactGA.pageview(window.location.pathname + window.location.search);
componentDidUpdate = () => ReactGA.pageview(window.location.pathname + window.location.search);
render() {
return (
<Router>
<div>
<Layout>
<HeaderList />
<Content className="Content">
<div className="RouteContent">
<Switch>
<Route exact path="/" component={AboutMe} />
<Route path="/skills" component={Skills} />
<Route path="/projects" component={Projects} />
<Route path="/Contact" component={Contact} />
</Switch>
</div>
</Content>
</Layout>
</div>
</Router>
);
}
}
export default App;
Upvotes: 11
Reputation: 83
If you’re interested in tracking page visits (and user behavior down the road), I suggest using the Segment analytics library and following our React quickstart guide to track page calls using the react-router library. You can allow the <Route />
component to handle when the page renders and use componentDidMount
to invoke page
calls. The example below shows one way you could do this:
const App = () => (
<div>
<Switch>
<Route exact path="/" component={Home} />
<Route path="/about" component={About} />
</Switch>
</div>
);
export default App;
export default class Home extends Component {
componentDidMount() {
window.analytics.page('Home');
}
render() {
return (
<h1>
Home page.
</h1>
);
}
}
I’m the maintainer of https://github.com/segmentio/analytics-react. 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. 🙂
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 2954
Unfortunately onUpdate
was removed in React Router v4, which means your fireTracking
function never fires.
In the react-ga documentation there's an example from Julia Giu that has been included for exactly this scenario which involves wrapping your application in an HoC.
Upvotes: 0