# Install on React
> For Vite or Create React App, the tag goes in index.html, not in a component that mounts and unmounts.
Section: Installation guides
Canonical page: https://statsy.co/docs/install/react
Last updated: 2026-09-15
A plain React app (Vite, Create React App, or any bundler serving one `index.html`) needs the tag in the HTML shell, not inside a component.
## Where it goes
Vite puts the shell at `index.html` in the project root; Create React App at `public/index.html`. Paste the tag inside ``.
```html
Your startup
```
Do not add the tag from a `useEffect`. An effect runs again on every mount, and in React’s development strict mode it runs twice, so you end up with two copies of the script on the page.
## Confirm it works
Deploy to the real domain and open it. **Live** shows the visitor. Local development on `localhost` is not counted in production, so test on the deployed site.
## Route changes are already tracked
React Router’s browser router navigates with `history.pushState`, which the script patches, so each route is a pageview with no extra code. A hash router (`#/pricing`) is the exception: add `data-hash-routing="true"` to the tag. See [Single-page apps and route changes](https://statsy.co/docs/tracking-script/spa).
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