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Use Google Analytics with your site

Docusaurus support Google Analytics with tow plugin plugin-google-analytics and plugin-google-gtag (recommend!).It can measure how users interact with your website

note

plugin-google-analytics is deprecated, and will become useless on July 1, 2023. UA-* tracking id will also be removed and change to G-* id.

step1: install plugin​

yarn add @docusaurus/plugin-google-analytics @docusaurus/plugin-google-gtag

make sure the version is the same as your Docusaurus

and add the following code to your docusaurus.config.js file.

docusaurus.config.js
module.exports = {
  presets: [
    [
      '@docusaurus/preset-classic',
      {
        googleAnalytics: {
          trackingID: '**********',
          anonymizeIP: true,
        },
        gtag: {
          trackingID: 'G-**********',
          anonymizeIP: true,
        },
      },
    ],
  ],
};

step2: create a new Google Analytics​

Go to Google Analytics and select Go to stream setup. Then create a new property for collecting data.

Entre your sites URL and the name, google will automatically generate the id.

step3: find your tracking id​

The measurement id is for gtag plugin and the property id is for analytics.

Finally, you can view your site analysis results on the page!