From c6ec64a2678e09612c29189c0aff9590755aa650 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Aleksandersen <code@daniel.priv.no>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 05:53:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] link[href] is already an absolute URL

a[href] and link[href] will both normalize to an absolute URL so there is no need to create an extra a element here.
---
 assets/src/js/tracker.js | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/assets/src/js/tracker.js b/assets/src/js/tracker.js
index 214103b..1ec5e4b 100644
--- a/assets/src/js/tracker.js
+++ b/assets/src/js/tracker.js
@@ -73,11 +73,7 @@ function trackPageview() {
   // parse canonical, if page has one
   let canonical = document.querySelector('link[rel="canonical"][href]');
   if(canonical) {
-    let a = document.createElement('a');
-    a.href = canonical.href;
-
-    // use parsed canonical as location object
-    req = a;
+    req = canonical.href;
   }
 
   // get path and pathname from location or canonical