GInsights Plugin Documentation & Installation
Ginsights is a Statamic plugin that provides an insight into Google Analytics data within the statamic dashboard. The plugin is easy to install in a website that is running a Statamic content management system.
The plugin integrates itself to the dashboard, where the user can review the traffic on various reports.
- Session and Pageviews
- Top Devices
- New Vs. Returning Visitors
- Most Visited Pages
- Top Referrals
How to Install
Installation is simple. You can search for this addon in the Tools > Addons section of the Statamic control panel and click install, or run the following command from your project root:
composer require analytics/gaddon
Add the widgets to config/statamic/cp.php
[
'type' => 'dashboard',
'days' => 30
'width' => 100,
],Authenticate Google Analytics with GInsights
After installing the GInsights plugin a widget will be displayed on the statamic dashboard, Click on the “Click here” button to authorize your analytics account.
You will now be taken to a screen that will let you pick which Google Account you want to sign in with. Make sure to sign in to the account that you used to make your Google Analytics property.
Next, click the Allow button to give GInsights access to your Google Analytics data.
In the dropdown, find your website and then click on Submit button to view Analytics data.
Inserting GA Tracking code
The analytics tracking code for the selected property will be appended to the pages if you paste the tag to the template file either in the header or footer as given below:
GInsights Screenshots
Installation
Frequently Asked Questions
GInsights Analytics
- Can I run GInsights together with another Google Analytics plugin?
It is not recommended, using another Google Analytics plugin together with GInsights can interfere with tracking and skew your data.
We recommend uninstalling other Google Analytics plugins before you install GInsights.
- Will GInsights slow down my site?
No. Only very specific tracking is loaded where needed while visitors are browsing your site, and this helps keep our script size as optimized as possible.
We load the Google Analytics script directly from Google, since it’s used on millions of sites. This means the script is most likely already cached in your visitors’ browsers.
When you’re logged into your Statamic admin, and looking at reports, GInsights is built using a modern JavaScript framework that makes it fast to load async without using up a lot of resources.
- Why is the tracking code loaded in the head section of the site?
This allows for other Google Analytics plugins and our addons to track things like downloads and eCommerce transactions, by ensuring that the Google Analytics script is loaded before anything else tries to use it. As it is an asynchronous Javascript snippet, it does not slow down the speed of your site loading.
