[gatsby-plugin-google-gtag] Disable default pageview tracking

[valse]

The default behavior of the config snippet is to send a pageview automatically; this is in contrast with the exclude option and the plugin tracks, on page load, even the excluded pages.

This PR solve also the double pageview hits on page load too: the first is made by the default behavior and the second one by the onRouteUpdate event.

[valse]

Added the GA doc page url exaplaining the issue and sanitized the not required object too, thanks.

[pieh]

published gatsby-plugin-google-gtag@1.0.6

[ardalis]

How do I override this so it actually sends page views?
My realtime analytics has dropped to 0 since migrating my blog to gatsby from wordpress and using this plugin.

I tried the obvious (in gatsby-config.js):

        gtagConfig: {
          anonymize_ip: false,
          cookie_expires: 0,
          send_page_view: true
        },

but it seems to be ignored. Help?

[valse]

Hi you don't need to override it because it's a bugfix: do you add your tracking id on the trackingIds array option?

Are you checking it on production? The tracking is disabled on development mode.

Do you have disabled any ad blocks: sometimes you forget to disable them and you don't understand why the analytics doesn't work 😅

[ardalis]

I ended up using the google tag manager and got it working just fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__PctBcNZ-c
This video helped.

Good point about ad blockers, though. :)