Google Analytics in React.js

Abandoning our previous Google Analytics App + Web properties, this time we created a GA dashboard purely for web. (So we finally get a tracking id, which looks like UA-123456-78 ~) You can refer to this tutorial to learn how to get a Google Tracking id 🙃

To implement tracking in our React.js project, we will use the package react-ga .

This article will cover the following topics:

1. Analyzing user acquisition
2. Tracking PageViews
3. Tracking Events
4. Tracking Load/Render Performance
5. Tracking Exception

If you are new to Google Analytics, here are two helpful youtube links that will guide you through the dashboard:

• Google Analytics, Ultimate Beginner’s Guide
• Google Analytics Tutorial 2019: Beginner To Expert

Terms in GA

Session

Google analytics is session-based event tracking, so we may think a session as a period of user activities. A session starts when user enters our website. It ends under the following conditions:

1. After 30 minutes of inactivity