7. Use GA in help and guidance
Date: 2021-05-18
Status
Accepted
Context
Currently help and guidance Wordpress site uses a number of unreliable plugins to track and visualise usage. This is frustrating for the owners of the tool who want detailed analysis to help shape the future of OPG’s help and guidance information.
Decision
We will add Google Analytics to the help and guidance Wordpress site. This decision was checked with the security team, who confirmed that Help and Guidance was equivalent to the Intranet in terms of being internally facing tools that needed analytics and that GA was safe to use in this context.
Consequences
Google Analytics is a potential vector for attack so we should ensure that we add appropriate subresource integrity checks and sandboxing, especially where it is embedded via an iFrame.
We can remove many of the older plugins from the help and guidance install.