I didn’t realize that 10up (now Fueled) helped to develop Google Site Kit. The plugin has more than 5 million active installs and is an easy way to setup Google Analytics and show basic stats inside your admin. This article outlines the stages of the development and suggests the next step in the plan for the plugin.

Google was found guilty of maintaining an illegal search and text advertising monopoly. Yesterday the US Department of Justice asked the court to require Google to divest of it Chrome browser. This will be decided in April.

In case you missed it, Google Analytics version 3 is end of life and beginning July 1st that data will no longer be available. You can download the data before the 1st if you want to keep access to it. Otherwise you should have already migrated the GA for your sites to version 4.

Chrome is going to slowly start blocking 3rd party cookies beginning in the first quarter of 2024. This article does a good job detailing the implications of this, but doesn’t do a very good job discussing Google’s replacement plans.