Google analytics now has two different styles of tracking codes that require different javascript.

[mikebowler]

Google analytics now has two different kinds of tracking ids. The old Universal Analytics style starts with "UA-" and works properly with what's already checked in. The new Google Analytics 4 style starts with "G-" and requires the new Javascript below.

Note that I was going to submit a pull request but couldn't figure out why the analytics code was in two different places and what the interactions were. It's in both scripts.html and google-analytics.html

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[olifre]

From reading the code, I believe the google-analytics.html include is currently completely unused. It was probably meant to be used in scripts.html. So I think a PR fixing that (including google-analytics.html in scripts.html) and then upgrading google-analytics.html would be ideal :+1: .

[mikebowler]

I've submitted a PR to address this one. https://github.com/mmistakes/so-simple-theme/pull/429

[channingwalton]

Hi, any chance @mikebowler's PR could be merged?

Is there any other workaround?

[pymander]

I'm also interested in seeing this get merged.

[danielle-h]

Thank you so much @mikebowler, I've applied this manually to my site, I couldn't figure out why my update in google-analytics.html wasn't working.