generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/gtagjs/install (HTTP 200),
  https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/ga4 (HTTP 200),
  https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics (HTTP 200), and a live probe of
  https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-XXXXXXXXXX (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-13
provider: Google Analytics
providerId: google-analytics
description: >-
  Google Analytics' client-side surface is a collection library, not a UI component
  library. There are no embeddable dashboards or drop-in widgets for GA4 — the
  Embed API that provided them died with Universal Analytics. What ships today is
  the Google tag (gtag.js), the Google Tag Manager container, and the Firebase
  Analytics SDKs for mobile.
families:
  - name: Google tag (gtag.js)
    kind: loader script
    distribution: cdn
    loader: https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=TAG_ID
    probe_status: 200
    version: null
    pinned: false
    note: >-
      Unpinned by design. The URL carries the property's measurement ID, not a
      version, and Google rolls the served script continuously. A site owner cannot
      pin, diff or subresource-integrity-check what executes on their pages — and
      neither can a consumer reason about which build is live. Recorded as
      version: null because there is nothing to record, not because it was not
      checked.
    install: |
      <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=TAG_ID"></script>
      <script>
        window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
        function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
        gtag('js', new Date());
        gtag('config', 'TAG_ID');
      </script>
    docs: https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/gtagjs/install
    api_surface:
      - gtag('config', TAG_ID, {...})
      - gtag('event', EVENT_NAME, {...})
      - gtag('set', {...})
      - gtag('consent', 'default'|'update', {...})
      - gtag('get', TAG_ID, FIELD, callback)
  - name: Google Tag Manager container
    kind: tag container
    distribution: cdn
    loader: https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM_CONTAINER_ID
    version: null
    pinned: false
    note: >-
      Configuration-driven alternative to hand-placed gtag.js. Also unpinned. A bare
      probe with a placeholder container ID returns 404, so container IDs are
      validated server-side.
    docs: https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/tag-manager/web
  - name: Google Analytics for Firebase SDKs
    kind: mobile SDK
    distribution: platform package managers
    platforms:
      - Android (Gradle — com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics)
      - iOS (Swift Package Manager / CocoaPods — FirebaseAnalytics)
      - Flutter (pub — firebase_analytics)
      - Unity, C++
    docs: https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics
    note: >-
      App-stream collection is delivered through Firebase, not through a Google
      Analytics package. The app_instance_id these SDKs generate is the device
      identifier the Measurement Protocol requires for app streams.
embedded_dashboards:
  available: false
  note: >-
    The Google Analytics Embed API — the JavaScript library that rendered charts and
    an auth button in a customer's own page — was a Universal Analytics component and
    was retired with UA on 2024-07-01. GA4 has no replacement. To display GA4 data in
    your own product you query the Data API server-side and render it yourself, or
    embed a Looker Studio report.
  alternative: Looker Studio (https://lookerstudio.google.com) with the GA4 connector
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com