Best practices for implementing analytics.js on modern websites.

For an in-depth explanation of all the features used in this boilerplate (as well as how to report on them), see my article:

The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build →

The base boilerplate extends the default tracking snippet and includes the following features:

• Tracks uncaught errors.
• Tracks custom user, session, and hit-level dimensions.
• Sends an initial pageview.
• Sends a pageload performance event.

The autotrack boilerplate builds on top the base boilerplate and includes select autotrack plugins

The multiple-trackers boilerplate builds on the autotrack boilerplate and includes support for using multiple trackers.

analytics.js boilerplate uses webpack to compile the source and webpack-dev-server to run it locally.

To install the dependencies and load the boilerplate in a brower, run the following commands:

npm install
npm start

Then visit localhost:8080 in your browser and open the developer console to see the analytics.js debug output.

The boilerplate index.js JavaScript file imports the base boilerplate by default. To run a different version, replace the URL imported via import('./analytics/base.js') with the version you want to load.