Adding Analytics
Why use analytics?
Most professional website teams using Gatsby use one of three types of analytics services on their website:
- Google Analytics because the functionality is free and comprehensive.
- Third-party marketing analytics like marketing automation (Hubspot, Marketo), session recording (FullStory, Heap), or hundreds of smaller vendors
- Google Tag Manager or Segment in order to easily send data to these third-party services, or collect data with third-party scripts
Gatsby offers a plugin for most common services, making first-class integration of analytics a simple, speedy, and secure process.
When utilizing marketing analytics tools, one key tradeoff is that marketing analytics tools are often the culprit for poor website performance. As a result, tools that make it easier for marketers to add and remove analytics (via Google Tag Manager), can also make it easier for them to harm site performance without noticing.