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OT OneTechly Plan accordingly  •  Build confidently Implementing AdSense and Google Analytics: What the Guides Don't Tell You There's no shortage of tutorials on adding Google AdSense and GA4 to a website. Most of them cover the happy path — copy this snippet, paste it here, done. What they skip over is why certain decisions matter, what breaks if you get the order wrong, and how these two systems actually interact once they're both running. I went through this setup twice: once for the OneTechly blog on Blogger, and once for PixelPerfect Screenshot API — a React SPA with a proper build pipeline. The second one was where things got genuinely interesting, because the standard advice for adding AdSense to a static HTML site doesn't quite translate to a build-based React project. There are file placement rules, CSP header implications, and an ads.txt authorization step that everyone mentions ...

OT OneTechly Plan accordingly  •  Build confidently The Refresh Problem: Why Modern Web Apps Break on Direct URL Access The first time I hit this, I thought something was wrong with Render's deployment pipeline. I had just pushed PixelPerfect Screenshot API to production — the React frontend was live, navigation between pages was smooth, everything looked correct. Then I bookmarked the dashboard URL and opened it in a new tab. Blank page. Not a 404 with a message. Not an error I could trace. Just nothing. Clicking through from the homepage worked. Typing the URL directly didn't. Sharing a link to a specific page produced the same result for anyone I sent it to. The cause turned out to be one missing file: _redirects . One line of configuration that took two minutes to add once I understood what was happening. Getting to that understanding took longer — because the problem isn't a bug, it's an architectu...