My Google Analytics setup for hugo is not working

Question

I've added my tracking id to my config.toml and everything looks like its matching up. Yet I haven’t seen any realtime data come in when I launch https://analytics.google.com/

theme = "osprey-delight"
tags = ["personal", "homepage", "portfolio"]
# canonifyURLS = true
googleAnalytics = "G-SYJ123456"
disableKinds = ["taxonomy", "taxonomyTerm"] # This theme does not currently use "tag" and "category" taxonomies
enableEmoji = true
pygmentsUseClasses = true

I'm using a theme(osprey-delight) and in the layouts/partials directory, theres a head.html that contains template string, will paste below:

  {{ if .Site.GoogleAnalytics }}
    {{ template "_internal/google_analytics_async.html" . }}
  {{ end }}

When i deploy to firebase, i do see a script tag for ga in my main index.html file in /public directory, here it is below -

<script type="application/javascript">
var doNotTrack = false;
if (!doNotTrack) {
    window.ga=window.ga||function(){(ga.q=ga.q||[]).push(arguments)};ga.l=+new Date;
    ga('create', 'G-12345689', 'auto');
    
    ga('send', 'pageview');
}
</script>
<script async src='https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js'></script>

What am I missing? I feel like I've don't everything right, but no luck yet.

Lottery

Answer 1

Update February 2020

Below you can find the solution with Universal Analytics, alternatively you can try implementing the solution for Hugo to send data to your GA4 data stream: https://gist.github.com/zjeaton/42246742cdaf2fb46400d04c2eba9a8a#file-analytics-gtag-html

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Solution with Universal Analytics

I suggest you create a Universal Analytics Property (as shown in following image) and use the relative identifier UA-XXXXXXX-X (easy way):

Alternatively, if you want to use GA4 Property you have to follow relative syntax: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/ga4

Pareu

so i'd add the UA key in my config file? – Lottery

Do you have to select this option during property setup or can you add this after the fact? I'm not seeing it in property settings. – Witcher

You can find it when you create a new property – Pareu

Answer 2

Instead of creating a Universal Analytics Property, you can implement the solution for Hugo as proposed by Zachary Eaton and keep your GA4 property: https://gist.github.com/zjeaton/42246742cdaf2fb46400d04c2eba9a8a#file-analytics-gtag-html

Lathe