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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

Implementing page analytics

There is a multitude of tools you can use to perform page analytics. In this book, we are going to look at the following two:

  • Google Analytics
  • Fathom Analytics

Google Analytics is the world's leader in page analytics. More than half of all websites on the web use this tool. One of the reasons for its popularity is its age as it has been around since 2005. When it was launched, there wasn't much competition in the analytics space. Another reason for its popularity is that it's free. It's important to remember that if you are using a free tool or site, it is often the case that your data is the product. If you are concerned about your privacy and that of your site visitors, then perhaps Fathom Analytics is a better choice.

Unlike Google, Fathom Analytics does not track personal data. For example, when a page view is logged, it only tells you it was visited, but not by who specifically. Fathom's script is cookie...