Google Analytics 4 support?

[alainassaf]

Hello,

Is anything special needed to update a beautiful-jekyll site to use Google Analytics 4?

Thanks,
Alain

[leabs]

From what I've read, you should not need to update anything to get GA working on a site using this theme. Simply uncomment the gtag: "" line in your _config.yml with your gtag and rebuild the site.

If you did want to replace the GA3 tag with the new GA4 tag, it's being rendered in beautiful-jekyll/_includes/google_analytics.html

[sudohainguyen]

I did as you mentioned but still doesn't work @leabs

[leabs]

@alainassaf @sudohainguyen I just forked this repo and got GA4 working using the measurement ID as the gtag. This is a GA4 property using web data stream.
Code repo here: https://github.com/leabs/beautiful-jekyll
Live site here: https://beautiful-analytics.vercel.app/

Steps I took:

1. Forked Repo
2. Added the MEASUREMENT ID as the un commented gtag in _config.yml
3. Had to update jekyll for deployment
4. Pushed to vercel to host.

If you have a public repo I can look at it for you, but this should work.

[sudohainguyen]

now somehow it works to me 🤣 thanks!

[daattali]

Sorry I haven't been responsive, I've been busy with other open source projects. Beautiful Jekyll really does need to move to GA4. If anybody wants to make a PR for it, I'd be happy to get some help.

[daattali]

I was reading about google analytics 4 and realized that, as others here have mentioned, it's already supported, using the gtag field.

I will update the config file to make it clear that google_analytics is old and should not be used, and gtag is the one that should be used moving forward.

[daattali]

I may also add a warning on pages that have old Universal Analytics without a new Google Analytics 4 configured.