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Adding support for Google Analytics v4 (GA4) properties #788

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Adding support for Google Analytics v4 (GA4) properties #788

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Google seems to be pushing people to "Migrate from UA to GA4", including (seemingly) deprecating some levels of support for the legacy properties.

To get ahead of this, I propose adding the new tag structure in, alongside the current UA- collector, as guidance in the migration notes includes:

If your website is manually tagged with analytics.js, don't remove the old analytics.js tag when you add the Google tag (above). The analytics.js tag will continue to collect data for your UA property. The Google tag (gtag.js) that you're adding will collect data for your new GA4 property.

There are import guides for converting your UA data over to GA4, so I think this is to avoid gaps in analytics.

Thank you for creating and maintaining sbt-microsites!

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Preparing to introduce GA4 alongside UA-...
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Making space in commonHead for tags around <head />
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The advice from [Google's Migration Page](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/13486733) states:

    To establish a connection between your website and Google Analytics,
    copy and paste the entire Google tag in the code of every page of your
    website, **immediately after** the <head> element.

and considering that **immediately after** is bold, I'm inclined to
comply even though I strongly suspect it should not matter.
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Introducing micrositeGoogleAnalytics4Token and the corresponding conf…
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Force-push was because I neglected to supply the arbitrary instance in tests

@juanpedromoreno juanpedromoreno added the enhancement New feature or request label Nov 7, 2023
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Thanks for your time, @blast-hardcheese !

@juanpedromoreno juanpedromoreno merged commit b792b8d into 47degrees:main Nov 8, 2023
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