Disable analytics in development

[maazadeeb]

• This is a question about using the theme.
• This is a feature request.
• I believe this to be a bug with the theme.
  • I have updated all gems with bundle update.
  • I have tested locally with bundle exec jekyll build.

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Environment informations

• Minimal Mistakes version: 4.7.1
• Jekyll version: 3.5.2
• GitHub Pages hosted: yes
• Operating system: macOS 10.10.5

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Expected behavior

I realised that my blog's page visits were being tracked even in development. This is adding wrong entries into the site analytics. I would expect that the theme has a way to disable analytics in development.

Just to solve the issue quickly, I added if (window.location.hostname !== "localhost") { ... } in google-universal.html.

But, after searching a bit, I found that we can use

{% if jekyll.environment == 'production' %}
  I'm in production!
{% else %} 
  I'm in development!
{% endif %}

I would add this change in analytics.html.

If you think this is a valid feature request, I wouldn't mind submitting a PR for this.

[maazadeeb]

This could apply to the comments section as well.

[mmistakes]

@maaz93 This sounds like a good idea to me if you want to go ahead and submit a PR. Maybe do them as two separate PRs... one for disabling Google Analytics in nonprod and another for disabling comments.

You can probably piggyback on these lines

_includes/analytics.html

{% if jekyll.environment == 'production' and site.analytics.provider and page.analytics != false %}

_layouts/single.html

{% if jekyll.environment == 'production' and site.comments.provider and page.comments %}

[maazadeeb]

@mmistakes Sounds good! Should I create a separate issue for disabling the comments or can I use this issue itself for both PRs?

[mmistakes]

You can reference this same issue.