Reply To: Google Analytics Event Tracking broken?

[Ernest Marcinko]

Oh I see the problem now, the gtag tracking code is not loaded properly. The actual gtag.js is not queued. I see you have this in your site header:

function gtag(){window.dataLayer.push(arguments);}
  gtag('js', new Date());

  gtag('config', 'UA-141577790-1');

..however this does not do anything at all, besides generating an empty gtag function. The proper integration should be:

<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-141577790-1"></script>
<script>
  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
  function gtag(){window.dataLayer.push(arguments);}
  gtag('js', new Date());

  gtag('config', 'UA-141577790-1');
</script>

You only have the second script part implemented, which is not sufficent. If you are concerned about the google pagespeed scores, then we are using a custom made implementation of this, which has 0 impact on the web vitals score, it is super fast an asynchronous:

<script>
    window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
    if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Chrome-Lighthouse") === -1) {
        let _gscript = document.createElement('script'),
            _gtcode = 'UA-141577790-1';
        _gscript.src = 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id='+_gtcode;
        document.body.appendChild(_gscript);

        function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
        gtag('js', new Date());
        gtag('config', _gtcode);
    }
</script>