Support for Google Analytics 4?

[james.m...@gmail.com]

Hello,

We are transitioning from Google's Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) across our web properties.  Is GA4 supported by DSpace 6.x or 7.x?  It would appear from the DSpace documentation and configuration that only Universal Analytics is supported.  Any insight is welcomed!

Thanks!

James

University of Alabama

[james.m...@gmail.com]

p.s. Universal Analytics will stop processing new hits on July 1, 2023 (link).  If GA4 isn't currently supported in DSpace, is there a plan to support it in the future?

[Tim Donohue]

Hi James,

We recently had a ticket submitted about this for DSpace 7: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/1672

The quick answer is that GA4 is not currently supported, but I'd expect it to be supported in DSpace 7 prior to July 2023.  (Currently, we only support Universal Analytics as you pointed out.) 

That said, the ticket is currently waiting on a volunteer developer, so if anyone reading this is interested, please let us know on the ticket.  Otherwise, I'll do my best to find a volunteer to solve this in either 7.4 or 7.5 (both of which will be released prior to July 2023).

Tim

[Alejandro Lengua Vega]

Hello,

I usually add Google Analytics code in the footer of Dspace pages.

What additional support are you looking for?

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[cristob...@gmail.com]

Hi Alejandro,

    Could you help me by sharing an example code please? I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

[Cristobal Caris]

Hi Alejandro,

Could you help me by sharing an example code please, we have a DSpace 6 Version ? I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

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[Sylvester Chikoti]

just copy javascript code provided by google for tracking, and paste it on the head section of the page-structure.xsl, make sure to put "=" in async for it to work otherwise it will break your system. it should be like this:

<!-- Google tag (gtag.js) -->
<script async="async" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-_ _  _ _ _"></script>
<script>
  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
  gtag('js', new Date());

  gtag('config', 'G-__ _ _ _ _');
</script>

regards