minimal-mistakes: Problem setting up Google Analytics

Hi, have recently launched a new release of our site using minimal-mistakes. All seems well, but I can’t get Google Analytics working…

Site is: www.tvrename.com GitHub repo is: https://github.com/TV-Rename/website

config.yml contains the following:

# Analytics
analytics:
  provider               : "google" # false (default), "google", "google-universal", "custom"
  google:
    tracking_id          :UA-110543541-1

The tracking ID worked on a previous incarnation of the site (using the leap-day theme)

I can’t for the life of me see what I’ve screwed up…

Any help much appreciated!

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State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 15 (5 by maintainers)

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A workaround might be to add the google analytics script into _includes/head/custom.html.

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

  gtag('config', 'XXX-YOURID-XXX);
</script>

gregoryalary on Jul 16, 2019

My guess is you haven’t set Jekyll’s environment variable to production. By default it’s set to development and the theme only includes analytics tracking for production… much like comments.

You’ll want to set it to JEKYLL_ENV=production

ref: https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/docs/configuration/#analytics

mmistakes on May 14, 2018