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Google Analytics for the browser as a browserify/CommonJS module.
This is a small module that lets you call the tracking function of google analytics (ga) using require():
var analytics = require('ga-browser')();
analytics('create', 'UA-XXXX-Y', 'auto');
analytics('send', 'pageview', {
'page': '/my-new-page',
'title': 'My New Page Title'
});
If you use this module in node.js instead of in a browser, calling the analytics() function will have no effect. This is useful if you are sharing code between the client & server. (server side tracking using google analytics is also possible, but beyond the scope if this particular module)
This module takes care of handling the global google analytics object, the tracking snippit is no longer required. You only need to load the google analytics javascript file.
The original javascript snippet looks like this:
<script>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
ga('create', 'UA-XXXX-Y', 'auto');
ga('send', 'pageview');
</script>
When using this module, you can replace that snippet with:
<script async src="//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js"></script>
<script async src="/myBrowserifyBundle.js"></script>
One of your modules should then contain:
var analytics = require('ga-browser');
analytics('create', 'UA-XXXX-Y', 'auto');
analytics('send', 'pageview', {
'page': '/my-new-page',
'title': 'My New Page Title'
});
console.log(require('ga-browser').scriptUrl);
// //www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
console.log(require('ga-browser').debugScriptUrl);
// //www.google-analytics.com/analytics_debug.js
console.log(require('ga-browser').getScriptMarkup());
// <script async="async" src="//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js"></script>
console.log(require('ga-browser').getScriptMarkup(true));
// <script async="async" src="//www.google-analytics.com/analytics_debug.js"></script>
require('ga-browser').insertScript(document);
// adds the <script> element to the given DOM Document
require('ga-browser').insertScript(document.head);
// adds the <script> element to the given <head> element
Unlike google analytics' default snippit, this module is compatible with Content Security Policy. It even works if unsafe-inline and unsafe-eval are not enabled.
You should make sure that script-src, connect-src and img-src allow www.google-analytics.com.
FAQs
Google Analytics for the browser as a browserify module
The npm package ga-browser receives a total of 74 weekly downloads. As such, ga-browser popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that ga-browser demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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