Use Plausible analytics with Jekyll Chirpy theme

In this post, we’ll see how to install Plausible analytics when using the Jekyll Chirpy theme.

Prerequisites

• A Plausible analytics server (self-hosted aka. Community Edition (CE) or cloud-based)
• A Jekyll website with the Chirpy theme

Installation

Plausible

Add a new website to your Plausible instance. You can find the documentation here.

Jekyll

1. Add a new file plausible.html under _includes/analytics. You may need to create this folder at the root. Its content is as follows:

<!-- Plausible -->
<script
  defer
  src="{{ site.analytics.plausible.domain }}/js/script.js"
  data-domain="{{ site.analytics.plausible.id }}"
></script>

1. Update your configuration file (_config.yml) with the following:

analytics:
  plausible:
    id: <placeholder> # The domain name used in Plausible
    domain: <placeholder> # Your Plausible instance URL eg. https://plausible.example.com or https://plausible.io