SDK Analytics Installer

Automatic page view tracking in Next.js requires installing the @dotcms/analytics SDK, wrapping your app with DotContentAnalytics provider, and configuring environment variables in a centralized analytics.config.js file. The provider automatically captures route changes without manual event calls.

Yes, the @dotcms/analytics SDK supports custom event tracking through the useContentAnalytics hook, enabling you to manually track specific user interactions like form submissions, product views, and purchase conversions by passing event configuration parameters.

Establish a centralized analytics.config.js file as a single source of truth for all analytics settings, then pass environment-driven configuration through the useContentAnalytics hook to components. This approach simplifies maintenance and ensures consistency across your application.

The @dotcms/analytics SDK is designed for Next.js and React applications. It targets the Next.js example setup structure but integrates with React's component model, supporting both framework patterns through hooks and provider placement.

Installing the @dotcms/analytics SDK requires the @dotcms/analytics package itself, plus requests and python-dotenv for environment configuration and dependency management during setup and deployment.

Centralized configuration eliminates scattered environment variables and duplicated settings across components, reducing maintenance overhead, preventing configuration drift, and making it easier to update tracking rules globally without code changes in individual components.