AMP Google Analytics not working

[ankurp]

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Short description of your issue:

Google analytics used to work with <amp-analytics> tag and has stopped working for about a month.

How do we reproduce the issue?

USA Today which uses Google Analytics does not trigger a Google analytics call https://cdn.ampproject.org/v/amp.usatoday.com/story/95582484/?amp_js_v=6

1. Open the link above in browser
2. Open Network tab and look for collect call which never fires for the site
3. Confirm by viewing the source that the <amp-analytics> tag for Google analytics is there in the source of the HTML.

What browsers are affected?

Tested only in Chrome but should not matter

Which AMP version is affected?

Using v0 of AMP

[jridgewell]

I don't see a <amp-analytics type="googleanalytics"> anywhere on the page? Only a type="comscore", and a custom which defines its own requests to https://srepdata.usatoday.com.

[ankurp]

@jridgewell This is an issue with another website which does specify <amp-analytics type="googleanalytics"> If you view the source of this site you will see the markup is there and set correctly but google analytics does not fire https://cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/amp/articles/2016-11-15/human-bond-pickers-find-redemption-against-indexing?amp_js_v=6

[jridgewell]

/to @avimehta

@lannka, maybe you could help?

[jpettitt]

We are seeing the analytics tag firing at a doubleclick address instead of the normal GA one and it's not including our extra vars. This is only pageview events - our visibility events are still hitting www.google-analutoics.com/collect

https://stats.g.doubleclick.net/r/collect?v=1&aip=1&t=dc&_r=3&tid=UA-73338518-2&cid=amp-fHZgKWzWlyzNG9qJZynjfnZuFZw-7y-8TvyZokMMAd8x95daLFPrGlvFV6IKFu2L&jid=0.3412224567191007&_v=a1&z=0.09046188048244419

[jpettitt]

See also #6714

[jridgewell]

Cross posting #6714 (comment):

This is due to Chrome not showing redirected XHR requests in the Network DevTools. Testing in Firefox, I see two XHRs:

1. POST to www.google-analytics.com
   • Includes extra params
   • Returns 302 redirect to stats.g.doubleclick.net
2. GET to https://stats.g.doubleclick.net
   • No extra params

Is your data being logged incorrectly in doubleclick.net?

[jpettitt]

Chrome bug https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=675789

[cramforce]

Can we close this?

[ankurp]

@cramforce This can be closed if 302 is the correct status code and response for Google analytics call that has extra parameters.

[cramforce]

You should be able to verify with Safari or Firefox devtools.