Community Plugin

Google Marketing Platform for Gatsby

Easily add these GMP products in a cohesive way to your Gatsby site:

Google Tag Manager
Google Analytics
Google Optimize

The installation is based on Google’s recommendations and best practices.

What This Does

This provides the ability to configure the Google Marketing Platform base tools, including Google Analytics, Google Optimize, and Google Tag Manager.

This plugin also allows the ability to preset dataLayer variables. This is useful in cases where you need GA, configured within GTM, to fire with particular variables on the initial pageview, such as dynamically setting your Google Analytics Property ID, instead of requiring to maintain it in multiple locations.

What this does NOT do

This will not provide any functionality around specific tracking or conversion tags. These responsibilities should be handled in Google Tag Manager.

Getting Started

Install

yarn add gatsby-plugin-google-marketing-platform

npm install gatsby-plugin-google-marketing-platform

Basic Setup

// In your gatsby-config.js
plugins: [
  {
    resolve: 'gatsby-plugin-google-marketing-platform',
    options: {
      dataLayer: {
        gaPropertyId: '[Google Analytics ID]',
      },
      tagmanager: {
        id: '[Google Tag Manager ID]'
      },
      analytics: {
        id: '[Google Analytics ID]'
      }
    },
  }
]

Configuration

Key	Type	Default	Description
dataLayer	object	`{}`	See Below
tagmanager	object	`{}`	See Below
analytics	object	`{}`	See Below
optimize	object	`{}`	See Below
includeInDevelopment	boolean	`false`	Scripts will be bundled in development mode

Data Layer

The dataLayer key is a freeform object that will allow you to pass data through to the globally available dataLayer array that Google Tag Manager utilizes to store and watch data. There is no set functionality for this, but you can see below for some usage examples.

Examples

Key	Type	Default
gaPropertyId	string	None

Tag Manager

Configuration specifics for Google Tag Manager.

Key	Type	Default	Description
id	string	None	Google Tag Manager ID
params	object	`{}`	Additional parameters to be added on GTM script URL

Analytics

Configuration specifics for Google Analytics.

Key	Type	Default	Description
id	string	None	Google Analytics ID
config	object	`{}`	Custom GA configuration

Optimize

Configuration specifics for Google Optimize.

Key	Type	Default	Description
id	string	None	Google Optimize ID
timeout	number	500	Number of milliseconds Optimize waits to try to load - Docs
activateOn	string	None	Activation Method

Activation Method

By default, this plugin doesn’t push any activation events to Google Tag Manager for single page apps. The activateOn property allows configuration to provide different methods of activation.

Activation events refers to Google’s way of handling re-activating Optimize on DOM change.

https://support.google.com/optimize/answer/7008840?hl=en

Options

observer: Utilizes MutationObserver to watch for DOM changes

Examples

Google Tag Manager with Google Analytics and Google Optimize

// In your gatsby-config.js
plugins: [
  {
    resolve: 'gatsby-plugin-google-marketing-platform',
    options: {
      dataLayer: {
        // Preset dataLayer values
        gaPropertyId: '[Google Analytics ID]',
      },
      tagmanager: {
        id: '[Google Tag Manager ID]',
        params: {
          // GTM URL Parameters
          // Ex: https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=[ID]&gtm_cookies_win=x
          gtm_cookies_win: 'x'
        }
      },
      analytics: {
        id: '[Google Analytics ID]',
      },
      optimize: {
        id: '[Google Optimize ID]',
      }
    }
  }
]

What That Will Add

Note: the below will be minified along with the rest of the code and not include comments

...
<head>
  ...

  <!-- Set up dataLayer with data if provided -->
  <script>
  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [{"gaPropertyId":"TEST-1234"}];
  </script>

  <!-- Initialized GTM via gtag -->
  <script>
  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
  gtag('js', new Date());
  </script>

  <!-- Google Optimize async hide class -->
  <style>.async-hide { opacity: 0 !important }</style>

  <!-- Google Optimize async hide script -->
  <script>
  (function(a,s,y,n,c,h,i,d,e){s.className+=' '+y;h.start=1*new Date;
  h.end=i=function(){s.className=s.className.replace(RegExp(' ?'+y),'')};
  (a[n]=a[n]||[]).hide=h;setTimeout(function(){i();h.end=null},c);h.timeout=c;
  })(window,document.documentElement,'async-hide','dataLayer',500,{'ASDF-4321':true});
  </script>

  <!-- Configure GTM given GA and GO IDs -->
  <script>
  gtag('config', 'TEST-1234', {"optimize_id":"ASDF-4321"});
  </script>

  <!-- Configure and initialize GTM -->
  <script>
  (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':
  new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],
  j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src=
  'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl+'&gtm_cookies_win=x';f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);
  })(window,document,'script','dataLayer', 'TESTASDF-12345678');
  </script>
  ...
</head>
...
<body>
  <!-- GTM noscript for when JS isn't available -->
  <noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=TESTASDF-12345678&gtm_cookies_win=x" height="0" width="0" style="display: none; visibility: hidden ></iframe></noscript>

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

_{Colby Fayock}
💻 📖

_{Richard Taylor Dawson}
📖

_{Markus Witzlsperger}
💻

_{Matt Smith}
📖 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!