Google Analytics / Google Tag Manager in the <head>
Howdy!
I've just set up Google Analytics and followed the set-up steps to add this code to the beginning of my head section of each page:
<!-- Google tag (gtag.js) -->
<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-G8PTM5VMZW"></script>
<script>
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer [];
function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
gtag('js', new Date());
gtag('config', 'G-G8PTM5VMZW');
</script>
I've since set-up Google Tag manager, and asked me to add this code to the <head>:
<!-- Google Tag Manager -->
<script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l][];w[l].push({'gtm.start':
new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],
j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src=
'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);
})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K6FXLSWW');</script>
<!-- End Google Tag Manager -->
My Question is Do I need both of these ? Can I remove the Google Analytics code and wil Google Tag manager still work and send data to GA ?
Thanks!!
1 Reply
Hi User9511. The setup videos explain how to configure the script tags for your HTML pages. They're throughout the setup tutorial:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9304153?hl=en&ref_topic=14088998&sjid=8927802455979436989-NC
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