It’s always fun to see if people visit your site or blog. It can be useful too, so you know what subjects are popular. I mostly just write for fun, but if you’re aiming for results, you’re going to need some data.
TelemetryDeck
The minute you’re adding analytics tools to your site or app, however, you’re dealing with your visitor’s / user’s privacy. I prefer to use tools that treat user data with care. In the case of this blog, which is made with Hugo, I’m now using TelemetryDeck. I like that TelemetryDeck does not collect any personally identifiable information. On top of that, up to 100K signals per month, it’s free to use. (And no, I don’t have stocks, I just really care about privacy, and I know the people at TelemetryDeck do too!)
Implementing TelemetryDeck on Hugo
I started by reading their Web Setup Guide which looked really simple and easy. I cheered a bit too soon, because I couldn’t find how to add a script to the <head> section of every page.
What I ended up doing – and I think this works for all Hugo themes – is this:
- In the root of your repo, find the folder named
themes\<your-theme>\layouts\partials\(in my case<your-theme>ishugo-flex) - Copy the file
load_site_assets.htmlfrom there tolayouts\partials\load_site_assets.html - Open the file, go to the bottom, add a newline, and add put the script that’s mentioned in the Web Setup there.
- Save, commit, push, and done!
As ever so often, figuring this out was more work than actually pasting it in.