An Open-Source Google Analytics 4 Client-Side Protocol Implementation
npm install @ntnbrtnkv/ga4nodeThis is an open-source implementation for the client-side protocol used by Google Analytics 4. When I mention "client-side" is because it must be differentiated with the official GA4 Measurement Protocol offered by Google.
This library implements the public Google Analytics 4 protocol to make possible to do a full server-side tracking using NODE/JS which is not actually possible with the official Measurement Protocol , which is meant only to augment the current GA4 data and it's not ready for doing a full tracking.
Main differences with the official offerser server-side protocol are:
- Trigger new sessions and visits starts
- Track Sessions attribution
- Override the User IP to populate the GEO Details
- View the hits on the DebugView
- Override ANY value you want
- Easily portable to other languages
If we compare this library with the official GTAG implementation.
- Lightweight 8.7kb (<4kb compressed ) 95.6% Lighter than a GTAG Container
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- Privacy Compliant: Full control over which cookies are created/read and sent to Google
- Dual Tracking (send hits to multiple measurement Ids)
#### ES6 Imports
import ga4mp from '@analytics-debugger/ga4mp'
const ga4track = ga4mp(["G-THYNGSTER"], {
user_id: undefined,
non_personalized_ads: true,
debug: true
});
#### Browser
<.script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@analytics-debugger/ga4mp@latest/dist/ga4mp.umd.min.js">< /script>
const ga4track = ga4mp(["G-THYNGSTER"], {
user_id: undefined,
non_personalized_ads: true,
debug: true
});
#### NODE.JS
const ga4mp = require('./dist/ga4mp')
const ga4track = ga4mp(["G-THYNGSTER"], {
user_id: undefined,
non_personalized_ads: true,
debug: true
});