Migrate to Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

[chalin]

This issue is part of a CNCF-wide effort to upgrade project websites to GA4 since Google has deprecated Universal Analytics (UA). For more details, see:

• Migrate CNCF websites to GA4 cncf/techdocs#108, including reference to a suggested migration process, which we've used to migrate a few CNCF projects already.

Tasks: stage 1, 2 & 3 (no code or config changes necessary)

• Create a GA4 site tag under the CNCF projects account.
  The new GA4 stream measurement ID is: G-JNBNV64PDX
• Configure GA4 website ID (gtag.js) through Netlify snippet injection, "Google Analytics 4 - only in production", just before </head>:

  {% if CONTEXT == 'production' %}
  <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-JNBNV64PDX"></script>
  <script>
    window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
    function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
    gtag('js', new Date());
  
    gtag('config', 'G-JNBNV64PDX');
  </script>
  {% endif %}

• Confirm that the GA4 site tag is receiving events

Followup

• Confirm that the UA site tag is still receiving events -- CNCF doesn't have access to the UA analytics account, but there have been no code changes, so the site tag should still be receiving events.
• Google Analytics 4 migration followup #5384

Pre-migration analytics info for the website

• UA ID UA-84550302-1 is registered via the old analytics.js
• Site built with Hugo 0.88.x
• Hosted on Netlify

/cc @caniszczyk @nate-double-u

[chalin]

Hello maintainers: I can't seem to find the Netlify account under the sites accessible to the CNCF. Can you grant me access (my GitHub ID at cncf.io) to:

• OPA's Netlify account
• Google Analytics account for UA ID UA-84550302-1

[srenatus]

Heya! I'm happy to help set you up.

What I don't quite understand is the need to access OPA's Netlify account. The website is built from any merged pull request, and the GA stuff is no exception:

https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/blob/main/docs/website/layouts/partials/google-analytics.html#L3

[srenatus]

✔️ Went ahead and sent you an invite to the netlify site:

[chalin]

What I don't quite understand is the need to access OPA's Netlify account.

Thanks for access to the Netlify account @srenatus. Now that I've assessed the situation, I can confirm that the simplest way to upgrade to GA4 for the OPA website, is to use Netlify snippet injection. For task details, see the opening comment.

Can you also grant me access to the Google Analytics for the UA property UA-84550302-1? This isn't strictly necessary, but it will allow me to cross-check some of the cleanup tasks.

[srenatus]

@peteroneilljr could you please do that GA user thing? I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to GA... 😳

[chalin]

GA4 setup is complete, so I'll close this issue. We'll track cleanup tasks via:

• Google Analytics 4 migration followup #5384

[srenatus]

For future reference, this

caused this:

[chalin]

@peteroneilljr could you please do that GA user thing? I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to GA... 😳

@peteroneilljr @srenatus - I still need access to the old GA account; or, if you have access you need to opt out of Google's automatic creation of a new GA4 site tag, since we have one already.

[chalin]

For context, see:

• Google analytics 4: opt-out of forced migration for already-migrated projects cncf/techdocs#170