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Question about Google Analytics code insert
See original GitHub issueHello!
Please, tell me. If I want to insert Google Analytics code to my site, then I should use Google Analytics Plugin, or create a custom component?
Why I can’t just insert Google Analytics code to header.js, or footer.js component? This is isn’t work? For example, on simple HTML-sites (Jekyll or Wordpress) I just insert Google Analytics code to before </body> close tag, and it’s enough.
Sorry for the noob question, I’m still learning Javascript + React…
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The plugin is an abstraction to make working with Google Analytics easier to control from a gatsby-config without having to go deep into other files. But that makes sense why you’d want to have more fine-grained control over it: you could insert it yourself by creating an html.js file: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/custom-html/
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