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Google Analytics Seems To Be Broken For A Certain Use Case

See original GitHub issue

Describe the bug

Upon building and hosting a Juypter Book via GitHub Pages with a custom domain, Google Analytics does not seem to register the MEASUREMENT ID when entered into _config.yml.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Build and host a Jupyter Book via GitHub Pages
Use a custom domain via CNAME file within the repo root
Create Google Analytics Property and subsequent Web Stream obtaining a MEASUREMENT ID.
Insert MEASUREMENT ID as a string into _config.yml as such:

html:
    google_analytics_id: '<your-id-here>'

Expected behavior

Google Analytics properly syncs with the site and produces traffic analytics.

Environment

Python 3.9.1:
Output of jupyter-book --version:
- Jupyter Book: 0.9.1
- MyST-NB: 0.10.1
- Sphinx Book Theme: 0.0.39
- MyST-Parser: 0.12.10
- Jupyter-Cache: 0.4.1
- NbClient: 0.5.1
MacOS version: 11.0.1

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:11 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

ofajardocommented, Mar 2, 2021

I’m having the same issue. What I think is happening is that there is a new version of google analytics. The code in jupyterbook is for the old version and probably needs the old “Tracking” ID to work (UA-XXXX), while the code that @wyattowalsh is reporting is for the new version that requires an “Universal” ID of style G-XXXX. When creating a new project Google Analytics now gives you the new Universal ID, while for now you can still obtain an old tracking ID, I guess that will be gone at some point. Probably it would be good if jupyterbook would update the javascript snippet to the new version (the one that is suggested in this same thread)

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choldgrafcommented, Apr 14, 2021

Hey all - I figured out that this is going to require a change in the pydata sphinx theme, where we inherit this functionality. I’ve opened up this issue to track that upstream change: https://github.com/executablebooks/jupyter-book/issues/1300

gonna close this one since the other will be a bit cleaner to read. Thanks everybody for helping figure out what was going on!

@jcheong0428 feel free to open a different issue about the google analytics code not showing up at all - that doesn’t seem related to this one specifically