This is a follow up to my previous posts Blogging for free with Jekyll, and Updating the Blog’s Theme.
In this post, I’ll write about the process that I am going through to add Google Analytics to this site.
Getting started
One of the things that I noticed when updating the theme for the previous post was this section:
Additionally, you may choose to set the following optional variables:
show_downloads: ["true" or "false" to indicate whether to provide a download URL] google_analytics: [Your Google Analytics tracking ID]
So, after getting my Google Analytics tracking code, I updated _config.yml, and tried it out. Unlike my experience
with changing the theme, this worked exactly as advertised.
Done
That’s it. Done. Google Analytics are now part of this blog.