Fix Google Analytics issue with Turbolinks - Githubissues

empowerhack / DrawMyLife-Service

API and Admin system for the Draw My Life initiative - Volunteers: check README and GitHub Projects to get started.

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Fix Google Analytics issue with Turbolinks #136

Closed steverabino closed 7 years ago

steverabino commented 7 years ago

What

Google Analytics does not work well with Turbolinks; even though the user may be navigating between pages, the path recorded in GA is not updated:

Download chrome extension https://keithclark.github.io/gadebugger/
Open Chrome dev tools > GA debugger
Start recording and preserve log
Navigate to https://drawmylife.herokuapp.com/
Click around to other pages
Each pageview should register a pageview with the correct path
However, currently, turbolinks stops this from happening successfully

N.B. I've been navigating around, and now on "/drawings/new" but all pageviews are recorded for "/" path

How

I've had this issue on another rails project, and this was the solution: https://github.com/stevesmith2609/acb-calc/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/google-analytics.js

Considerations

Is this issue dependent on any others? No
Should the assigned consult with anyone in particular before proceeding? No

steverabino commented 7 years ago

Alternatively, we could disable Turbolinks