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Google Analytics for PWAs: Tracking offline behaviour and more - Builtvisible

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PWAs bring a host of exciting new capabilities to the web, including push notifications, background sync, and offline usage. How can we capture data about these events in Google Analytics?

The old challenge: Single Page App JavaScript frameworks We'll get this out the way first. Pageview tracking with an SPA JavaScript framework is a well-known and well-documented challenge, and for many typical PWAs it's the most immediately obvious adaptation which is required. In short, if your PWA uses a framework like React or Angular to handle navigation events, then standard pageview tracking will not function. In contrast to traditional websites which do a round-trip to the server every time a page is loaded, SPAs load content and manipulate the URL with the History API . In other words,

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