My Github Pages site uses Jekyll, and needs a web analytics tool. Clicky is one of the few that was free. The tracking code they provide to put within the <html> tag wasn’t working.
<script async data-id="12345678" src="//static.getclicky.com/js"></script>
Github Pages has some constraints with JavaScript that I don’t quite understand, but this gem seems simple enough. Running $ gem install jekyll-clicky says the gem is installed, and “Jekyll-Clicky” shows up when I run gem list.
The second step is to add this to the config.yml file and fill it out, though I’m not entirely sure what goes in the first line.
jekyll_clicky: #Add this if you want to track with Clicky analytics
site:
id: # Required - replace with your tracking id
I’m clicking around my site using my phone and browser (tracking/ad blockers off), but nothing is showing up on the Clicky dashboard. How would you troubleshoot this? Does it even work?
What I tried: Nullifying the tracking code in the header with <!-- -->. Putting my site id and website name in the jekyll_clicky: field of the part that goes in the config.yml file.