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Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby

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Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby

Overview of this book

Gatsby is a powerful React static site generator that enables you to create lightning-fast web experiences. With the latest version of Gatsby, you can combine your static content with server-side rendered and deferred static content to create a fully rounded application. Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby provides a comprehensive introduction for anyone new to GatsbyJS and will help you get up to speed in no time. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this easy-to-follow guide starts by teaching you the core concepts of GatsbyJS. You'll then discover how to build performant, accessible, and scalable websites with the GatsbyJS framework. Once you've worked through the practical projects in the book, you'll be able to build anything from a personal website to large-scale applications with authentication and make your site rise through those SEO rankings. By the end of this Gatsby development book, you'll be well-versed in every aspect of the tool's performance and accessibility and have learned how to build client websites that your users will love.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started
7
Part 2: Going Live
12
Part 3: Advanced Concepts

Chapter 8: Web Analytics and Performance Monitoring

In this chapter, we will investigate ways in which we can monitor the behavior of our application and the users who visit it. We will learn how page analytics can be a valuable tool in helping create better user experiences. We will learn how to use two different tools to gather these page insights, depending on what we require. We will learn what is required of us legally when using these tools. We will also implement plugins that allow us to debug errors that our users encounter when using our site.

By the end of this chapter, you should feel confident that you can gather different types of analytics and use them to inform yourself (or the site owner) about how code changes have affected the user experience.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introducing website analytics
  • Implementing page analytics
  • Monitoring the performance of your site