You may notice when accessing your CivicPlus managed Google Analytics Property for your CivicEngage website that Google has announced the End-of-Life (EOL) of Universal Analytics and instead will be providing Google Analytics 4. On July 1, 2023, standard Universal Analytics properties will stop processing new hits, but Google will allow at least six months after sunset to access historical information in Universal Analytics. For more information, please read Google’s Universal Analytics EOL announcement.
CivicPlus is aware of and proactively engaged in planning and development efforts to ensure we make a smooth transition to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) ahead of the Universal Analytics service cutoff on July 1, 2023. CivicPlus will provide more information about the transition in the coming months. Until then, you may disregard any messages you receive or see from Google about this EOL, as there is no action required of you at this time.
GA4 was implemented and started tracking basic data on August 25th, 2022. We then began to develop the other tracking events to match what was tracking in Universal Analytics.
On February 4th, 2023 we released a new feature that will be available for GA4, called Page Section Tracking. We are currently in the planning stages for granting access and creating training.
Latest Update
As of June 1, 2023 any user that had access to Universal Analytics was added to access that Organizations Google Analytics 4 with the same user email account. An email was sent to those email addresses with resources located on the Help Center.
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Hi There. Do you know if we will be able to track downloads from the document center folders and image repositories?
Best,
Sheri
Sheri, you will be able to track downloads from Document Center, Agenda Center and Archive Center. Since images are usually used in site design elements, they will not be tracked unless they are stored in the Document Center.
CIVICENGAGE... Any Updates on this? Google is getting rather aggressive on their campaigning to migrate our account to GA4 before July 1st which is only30 days away!!!
William Silliman an email was sent last week, May 25, 2023, to the current user account we have listed for Universal Analytics. We completed adding access to GA4 for those users today. If you have not requested access to Google Analytics, please reach out to your account manager. If you had access to Universal Analytics and do not have access to GA4, please contact our Support team. Here is a copy of that email with all of the links to resources.
An Important Update About Your Municipal Website Analytics
To ensure you have access to the most advanced and robust website analytics capabilities, CivicPlus© will be making the change, along with Google, from the current Universal Google Analytics to Google Analytics 4.
What Does This Mean for You?
To make this transition simple for your team, CivicPlus created a Google Analytics 4 property for all sites and began gathering data in late August 2022. Our primary goal was to successfully transition all sites to Google Analytics 4 to ensure you do not experience a gap in reporting capabilities.
Access is being granted to Google Analytics 4 beginning on May 25, 2023, and will be complete by June 1, 2023.
You will continue to utilize Google Analytics as you do today and access your new data in Google Analytics 4 using the same account as before. There is no action needed on your part.
Historical Data Access
(From Google) Until July 1, 2023, you can continue to use and collect new data in your Universal Analytics properties.
After July 1, 2023, you'll be able to access your previously processed data in your Universal Analytics property for at least six months.
In the coming months, we'll provide a future date for when existing Universal Analytics properties will no longer be available. After this future date, you'll no longer be able to see your Universal Analytics reports in the Analytics interface.
We know your data is important to you, and we strongly encourage you to export your historical reports during this time. If this is not done, you will lose access to your data when Universal Analytics is decommissioned by Google.
Google Analytics 4 Information and Tutorials!
We have prepared on-demand tutorial videos on Google Analytics 4 covering the basics of signing in, viewing reports and an introduction to Looker Studio to create more visual reports with your data.
There are also individual articles on specific data and reporting topics that may interest you.
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