As per the announcement from Google, GA3 will be unsupported after 1st July 2023. To continue receiving valuable insights and analytics for your site’s performance, upgrade to GA4.
How to upgrade Discourse GA version
Head to Admin > Settings and look for the ga version site setting
If it is set to v3_analytics, switch it to v4_gtag
Additional context
For new sites, we have switched the default to Google Analytics 4 (#discourse/pull/20936)
For existing sites using GA3, a warning will be shown on the admin dashboard:
Is anyone else getting a crazy number of Page Views with GA4?
Run a sports forum and our team is doing well but even so I’m registering nearly 4 million page views a month which is huge compared to my usual about 1.2 million on the old analytics.
Also, Google AdSense is showing only 200K or so page views even though i have ads on every page.
If you have defined any custom events in theme components, you will need to update them to use the new gtag API instead of ga.
