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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon google

Use the gtag.js analytics library by default

Open chalin opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Universal Analytics (UA) is officially deprecated:

  • Data collection will stop on July 1st, 2023
  • Six months after that, historical data will be gone too

The sooner projects migrate to Google Analytics 4 (GA4), the better.

As a first step in supporting projects' migration from UA to GA4, Docsy should, by default, use the [gtag.js] analytics library -- the only library supported by GA4 -- for all site tags.

This is a proposed concrete step in support of:

  • #1096

chalin avatar Aug 17 '22 20:08 chalin

PR reverted after seeing some errors. https://github.com/google/docsy/pull/1212

I'll take a closer look and try to figure out what went wrong.

geriom avatar Aug 31 '22 16:08 geriom

In https://github.com/google/docsy/pull/1178#issuecomment-1258157495, @geriom wrote:

Turns out this was not the issue, it was circumstantial evidence. I noticed the problem immediately after merging this but this did not introduce that problem. Sorry @chalin

Feel free re-submit this PR.

Ok, will do as soon as I can.

chalin avatar Sep 26 '22 15:09 chalin