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
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Head to Admin > Settings and look for the
ga versionsite setting -
If it is set to
v3_analytics, switch it tov4_gtag
Additional context
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For new sites, we have switched the default to Google Analytics 4 (#discourse/pull/20936)
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For existing sites using GA3, a warning will be shown on the admin dashboard:
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.