How to Enable Google Analytics Tracking in Your Greening-Deployed Site

Want to track visitors to your open-source project site or personal portfolio? Greening makes it easy to wire up Google Analytics — no manual editing required.

With just a few lines in your greening.yaml config, you can automatically include a Google Analytics tracking ID in your deployed GitHub Pages site.

🧠 Why This Is Useful

Traditional static site setups (Jekyll, Hugo, etc.) require you to:

• Manually edit template files or _config.yml
• Copy and paste Google scripts
• Hope nothing breaks in the build

Greening skips all that. Just provide your tracking tag, and it handles the rest.

📈 What You’ll Need

1. A Google Analytics 4 property
2. The Measurement ID (e.g., G-XXXXXXXXXX)
3. A Greening project with a configured greening.yaml

✏️ Step 1: Grab Your Tracking Tag

1. Go to Google Analytics
2. Select or create a GA4 property
3. Navigate to Admin → Data Streams → Web
4. Copy the Measurement ID (starts with G-)

📄 Step 2: Paste It into greening.yaml

In your project’s root directory, open or create a greening.yaml file and add:

google_analytics: G-XXXXXXXXXX

Replace G-XXXXXXXXXX with your actual tag.

🚀 Step 3: Deploy Your Site

Run the following command to generate and publish your GitHub Pages site:

greening deploy

Greening will:

• Render your site using Jekyll and the Minimal Mistakes theme
• Inject your analytics tag automatically
• Push it to the gh-pages branch

✅ You’re Done!

Visit your site, and you’ll start seeing traffic data appear in your GA4 dashboard — no manual setup, no scripts to mess with.

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Greening’s mission is to make launching, documenting, and deploying projects fast, beautiful, and automated. Adding analytics should never be the bottleneck.

You can follow the project or contribute on GitHub: 👉 https://github.com/chris-greening/greening