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Hi,

How do I include Google analytics in my web app?

Beloved premium user akquant | 13 posts | Feb. 7, 2022, 12:05 p.m. | permalink

You need to set up Google Analytics (on a Google account) and put a script tag with tracking code to the pages you want to track.

Staff pafk | 2973 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Feb. 7, 2022, 4:37 p.m. | permalink

I added the script tag provided by Google right after the <head> tag of the /mysite/templates/layout.html file, but it is not showing on my site pages. I am running Flask

<head>
<!-- Google tag (gtag.js) -->
<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-xxxxxxxxx"></script>
<script>
    window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
    function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
    gtag('js', new Date());

    gtag('config', 'G-xxxxxxxxx);
</script>
emaimone | 3 posts | Sept. 12, 2022, 1:49 a.m. | permalink

Did you reload your web app after making the change?

Staff fjl | 4352 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Sept. 12, 2022, 3:03 p.m. | permalink

Yes, a couple of times, just to be sure :-)

emaimone | 3 posts | Sept. 12, 2022, 5:01 p.m. | permalink

So, are you sure that that's the template that is actually rendered?

Staff fjl | 4352 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Sept. 13, 2022, 8:52 a.m. | permalink

I was actually editing the template of a similar app that I have in pythonanywhere. Silly mistake. It is working fine now. Thank you

emaimone | 3 posts | Sept. 14, 2022, 1:23 a.m. | permalink

Glad to hear that you made it work!

Staff fjl | 4352 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Sept. 14, 2022, 9:34 a.m. | permalink