How to add Google Tag Manager code to your Hugo website
1 min readSep 5, 2020
In config.toml add new params and change XXX’s with your containerID.
[params]
gtm = "GTM-XXXXXX"Find your themes header.html partial and add Google Tag Manager code anywhere between the <head> tags.
{{ if $.Site.Params.gtm }}
<!-- Google Tag Manager -->
<!-- create dataLayer -->
<script>
<!-- OPTIONAL dataLayer -->
var dataLayer = window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
dataLayer.push({
page:'{{ .Title }}',
categories:'Your dataLayer'
});
</script>
<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','{{ $.Site.Params.gtm }}');</script>
<!-- End Google Tag Manager -->
{{ end }}Right below the <body> element, include the following code snippet.
{{ if $.Site.Params.gtm }}
<!-- Google Tag Manager (noscript) -->
<noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id={{ $.Site.Params.gtm }}"
height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript>
<!-- End Google Tag Manager (noscript) -->
{{ end }}You may want to add preconnect and prefetch features for better performance.
<link href="https://www.googletagmanager.com" rel="preconnect" crossorigin>
<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://www.googletagmanager.com">To exclude Google Tag Manager code from the localhost website, copy your code into an if statement like this:
{{ if not (in (.Site.BaseURL | string) "localhost") }}
...
{{ end }}That’s it!
