Remove UA from internal tracking

[aaemnnosttv]

Feature Description

Universal Analytics has stopped tracking all hits since July 1 2024, it can now be removed from the plugin.

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Acceptance criteria

• The tracking configuration specific to UA should be removed
• The tracking ID should be updated in \Google\Site_Kit\Core\Tracking\Tracking
  • trackingID_GA4 can be removed / replaced with the above (as it was before there were multiple IDs)

Implementation Brief

• Update the TRACKING_ID const at includes/Core/Tracking/Tracking.php and replace the value with that of the GA4 tracking ID
• In assets/js/util/tracking/createInitializeSnippet.js
  • Remove the dataLayerPush code block referencing config.trackingID
    

    site-kit-wp/assets/js/util/tracking/createInitializeSnippet.js

    Lines 62 to 72 in 45342dd

    	dataLayerPush( 'config', config.trackingID, {
    	groups: 'site_kit',
    	send_page_view: config.isSiteKitScreen,
    	dimension1: referenceSiteURL,
    	dimension2: userRolesAsString,
    	dimension3: userIDHash,
    	dimension4: pluginVersion || '',
    	dimension5: Array.from( enabledFeatures ).join( ',' ),
    	dimension6: activeModules.join( ',' ),
    	dimension7: isAuthenticated ? '1' : '0',
    	} );

  • Update the dataLayerPush code block referencing config.trackingID_GA4 and update it to instead reference config.trackingID
    

    site-kit-wp/assets/js/util/tracking/createInitializeSnippet.js

    Lines 73 to 85 in 45342dd

    	dataLayerPush( 'config', config.trackingID_GA4, {
    	groups: 'site_kit',
    	send_page_view: config.isSiteKitScreen,
    	domain: referenceSiteURL,
    	plugin_version: pluginVersion || '',
    	enabled_features: Array.from( enabledFeatures ).join( ',' ),
    	active_modules: activeModules.join( ',' ),
    	authenticated: isAuthenticated ? '1' : '0',
    	user_properties: {
    	user_roles: userRolesAsString,
    	user_identifier: userIDHash,
    	},
    	} );

• In assets/js/util/tracking/index.js
  • Remove trackingID_GA4 from the initialConfig object
    

    site-kit-wp/assets/js/util/tracking/index.js

    Lines 37 to 48 in 45342dd

    	const initialConfig = {
    	activeModules,
    	trackingEnabled,
    	trackingID,
    	trackingID_GA4: 'G-EQDN3BWDSD',
    	referenceSiteURL,
    	userIDHash,
    	isSiteKitScreen,
    	userRoles,
    	isAuthenticated,
    	pluginVersion,
    	};

Test Coverage

• Update the test at assets/js/util/tracking/index.test.js accordingly following the above changes

QA Brief

• Setup Site Kit
• Enable Analytics event tracking debugger extension (like adswerve, etc) in the browser of your choice
• Opt in for tracking in Site Kit Settings
• Verify (in analytics debugger output) that UA tag ID is not present (UA-xxx), but only the GA4 one G-xxx

Changelog entry

• Remove UA Analytics tracking from Site Kit admin.

[eugene-manuilov]

IB ✔️

[mohitwp]

QA Update ✅

• Tested on dev environment.
• Tested using GA debugger.
• Verified on dev environment that UA tag ID is not present (UA-xxx).
• Verified that GA tag is showing.

Latest Environment -

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Screencast -

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