Migrate to Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

[chalin]

Migrate to Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

[phlax]

Might analytics have been inadvertently removed?

i have asked in the past about getting access to the analytics as it would be helpful in understanding any issues with the website (eg heavy traffic)

cc @mattklein123

[chalin]

I'd like to request access to the analytics too.

[mattklein123]

I think I have access to the Analytics and can probably figure out how to give it out. Please ping me on Envoy slack.

[chalin]

Thanks @mattklein123. I just pinged you from the CNCF slack workspace.

[chalin]

Analytics are back!

$ curl -i https://www.envoyproxy.io/ 2>/dev/null | grep UA-1
  ga('create', 'UA-148359966-1', 'auto');

All we need now is to have access to the analytics console :).

@richarddli or @alyssawilk might you have access to the Envoy website's Google Analytics console?

I'm still waiting on feedback from @caniszczyk. If Chris and no one else have access, then (as @mattklein123 suggested), I'll simply create a new GA4 site tag and we'll use it instead.

[chalin]

As @phlax points out just above this #274 (comment), there's no GA associated with the docs, since they are generated separately. @phlax's suggestion of using Netlify snippet injection would be a clean and simple solution to get analytics into all of the site pages.

[chalin]

Oh, I remember now why we have moved away from snippet injection for another project. As far as I recall, snippet injection is applied to all builds, not just production builds. Maybe that's configurable? I'll take another / closer look tomorrow.

[phlax]

its also not as configurable - but the alternative is manually injecting the snippet into historical pages and adding the snippet to new docs builds - doable but probs not the easiest way

[chalin]

• Oh, snippets are actually nicely configurable. I'll work on something today.
• I'm going ahead and creating the GA4 site tag, which we'll need regardless if we ever gain access to the UA property.

/assign @chalin

[chalin]

Production-only snippet injection has been enabled, and I've checked a branch deploy to ensure that it isn't getting any dynamic snippet injection.

The GA4 site tag is processing events:

[chalin]

Whether we ever recover the UA access, the work here is done. Closing.