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Google Analytics 4 on Itchio ?

A topic by Lapinay created Feb 05, 2023 Views: 1,851 Replies: 11
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Google is retiring Google Analytics 3 on July 2023.

You can now migrate your property from GA3 to G4 but Itchio seems to not be ready for the switch yet.

When entering the new tracking ID from GA4, Itchio form has this message "Errors: Invalid Google Analytics ID"

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EDIT We now have a GA4 migration guide available here: https://itch.io/t/2864151/google-analytics-4-update-guide

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Dear leafo, will Itchio fire the purchase and download conversions to GA4 to measure the number and amount of purchase, and the number of download in the datalayer ?

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I don’t see why not but I can’t say for sure until we start the code migration.

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Thanks ! I was wondering because the previous integration with GA3 (enhanced e-commerce) did not send the purchase set of data (amount, quantity, name etc) so no insights on revenue. But now in GA4, purchase is an event like any other events (download etc), it will be great to have those data in GA4 as GA4 is now video game friendly. 

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yeah this is a bit of a problem.

I'm also interested in this. What will happen in July when Google stop processing date on the old Universal GA properties? 

It says in their message (on the top of GA currently): 

On 1 July 2023, this property will stop processing data. Starting in March 2023, for continued website measurement, you should create a new Google Analytics 4 (GA4) property, or one will be created for you based on your original property and reusing existing site tags.

So maybe this will be ok? Will it still work with itch?

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it won't, Google is completely shutting down Universal Properties. So itch needs to do something.

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Has anything changed in that issue since Feb? I'm also interested in connecting with GA4. Currently having an error when trying to connect site with GA, but maybe I make smth wrong

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I'm keeping an ear out but haven't heard anything yet. I can only collect data using UA but I think Google don't allow you to create new UA anymore. Itch needs to allow us to use GA4. Time's running out though! Maybe itch will switch to GA4 in July?

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