[Analytics] [Social media links] Custom and Duplicate GA events removal

[randimays]

Status

[2024-07-23] [Fran] Duplicative events need to be removed. This ticket should be prioritized.

Description

The va-link web component's analytics now include link destination, and va-link-action has been released to the component library. We can now use baked-in analytics and convert to web components where possible in social media sidebar links.

Engineering notes

Some exploration will need to be done to discover where this file / sidebar is used and how it differs from the sidebars present on benefit hub detail pages.

Code:

• https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/content-build/blob/2cfe33c456bd3fb3dfcb961d0e975d74fcbb904f/src/site/components/merger-social-sco.html#L61
• https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/content-build/blob/2cfe33c456bd3fb3dfcb961d0e975d74fcbb904f/src/site/components/merger-social-sco.html#L72
• https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/content-build/blob/2cfe33c456bd3fb3dfcb961d0e975d74fcbb904f/src/site/components/merger-social-sco.html#L91
• https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/content-build/blob/2cfe33c456bd3fb3dfcb961d0e975d74fcbb904f/src/site/components/merger-social-sco.html#L107

User story

AS A PO/PM managing Sitewide products & features I WANT to (where appropriate) adopt the va-link or va-link-action component, its baked-in analytics, and remove the custom GA events SO THAT extraneous code is removed and only the events needed will be triggered.

Acceptance criteria

• [ ] Element: Social media links (all four instances in src/site/components/merger-social-sco.html)
  • [ ] remove custom events
  • [ ] enable component's baked-in analytics
  • [ ] remove duplicate events
• [ ] a11y review

[randimays]

Code has been merged to production. Verified that only the web component baked-in analytics are firing now. Closing as complete