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Google Analytics with Minima
Today I set up Google Analytics with Jekyll Minima. I learned a few things:
It looks like a one line change
In theory, setting it up is very straightforward. You simply have to add a line of code to the config file:
# _config.yml
google_analytics: YOUR-MEASUREMENT-ID
Modifying the build command
But it didn’t work at first. In the head.html it only includes the analytics if jekyll.environment == 'production'
(it works like that so you don’t track yourself in development). To achieve this, I modified the build command in Netlify.
I replaced this command (configured by default by Netlify):
bundle exec jekyll build
For this one:
JEKYLL_ENV=production bundle exec jekyll build
Going with a custom solution
And it still didn’t work. Then I found this article that refers to this bug. Their recommended solution required installing a gem. I chose to keep my setup as it is and followed this custom solution. Now it works 👍.