Introduction

Running a blog or community page on GitHub Pages with Hugo is a masterclass in efficiency, but it does leave one gap: visibility. Because GitHub Pages is a static environment, we don’t have access to server logs to see who is visiting our site. To understand our audience, we need to implement a client-side tracking solution.

In this post, we’ll compare the most popular analytics options for Hugo users and walk through the exact steps to enable them in the LoveIt theme.