diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 36d5aec..c880dc9 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -18,9 +18,6 @@ Features
   resource downloads will be displayed as Events in the Google Analytics
   reporting interface.
 
-* Adds Google Analytics Event Tracking to some API calls so that usage of the
-  API can be reported on via Google Analytics.
-
 * Adds Google Analytics Event Tracking to group links on the home page,
   user profile links, editing and saving user profiles, etc.
 
diff --git a/ckanext/googleanalytics/controller.py b/ckanext/googleanalytics/controller.py
index d9eb969..e226db8 100644
--- a/ckanext/googleanalytics/controller.py
+++ b/ckanext/googleanalytics/controller.py
@@ -1,151 +1,12 @@
 import logging
-from ckan.lib.base import BaseController, c, render, request
+from ckan.lib.base import BaseController, c, render
 import dbutil
 
-import urllib
-import urllib2
-
-import logging
-import ckan.logic as logic
-import hashlib
-import Queue
-import threading
-from pylons import config
-
-from webob.multidict import UnicodeMultiDict
-from paste.util.multidict import MultiDict
-
-from ckan.controllers.api import ApiController
-
 log = logging.getLogger('ckanext.googleanalytics')
 
-
 class GAController(BaseController):
     def view(self):
         # get package objects corresponding to popular GA content
         c.top_packages = dbutil.get_top_packages(limit=10)
         c.top_resources = dbutil.get_top_resources(limit=10)
         return render('summary.html')
-
-
-class AnalyticsPostThread(threading.Thread):
-    """Threaded Url POST"""
-    def __init__(self, queue):
-        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
-        self.queue = queue
-
-    def run(self):
-        while True:
-            # grabs host from queue
-            data_dict = self.queue.get()
-
-            data = urllib.urlencode(data_dict)
-            log.debug("Sending API event to Google Analytics: " + data)
-            # send analytics
-            urllib2.urlopen(
-                "http://www.google-analytics.com/collect",
-                data,
-                # timeout in seconds
-                # https://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib2.html#urllib2.urlopen
-                10)
-
-            # signals to queue job is done
-            self.queue.task_done()
-
-
-class GAApiController(ApiController):
-    # intercept API calls to record via google analytics
-    analytics_queue = Queue.Queue()
-
-    def __init__(self):
-        # spawn a pool of 5 threads, and pass them queue instance
-        for i in range(5):
-            t = AnalyticsPostThread(self.analytics_queue)
-            t.setDaemon(True)
-            t.start()
-
-    def _post_analytics(
-            self, user, request_obj_type, request_function, request_id):
-        if config.get('googleanalytics.id'):
-            data_dict = {
-                "v": 1,
-                "tid": config.get('googleanalytics.id'),
-                "cid": hashlib.md5(user).hexdigest(),
-                # customer id should be obfuscated
-                "t": "event",
-                "dh": c.environ['HTTP_HOST'],
-                "dp": c.environ['PATH_INFO'],
-                "dr": c.environ.get('HTTP_REFERER', ''),
-                "ec": "CKAN API Request",
-                "ea": request_obj_type+request_function,
-                "el": request_id,
-            }
-            self.analytics_queue.put(data_dict)
-
-    def action(self, logic_function, ver=None):
-        try:
-            function = logic.get_action(logic_function)
-            side_effect_free = getattr(function, 'side_effect_free', False)
-            request_data = self._get_request_data(
-                try_url_params=side_effect_free)
-            if isinstance(request_data, dict):
-                id = request_data.get('id', '')
-                if 'q' in request_data:
-                    id = request_data['q']
-                if 'query' in request_data:
-                    id = request_data['query']
-                self._post_analytics(c.user, logic_function, '', id)
-        except Exception, e:
-            log.debug(e)
-            pass
-
-        return ApiController.action(self, logic_function, ver)
-
-    def list(self, ver=None, register=None,
-             subregister=None, id=None):
-        self._post_analytics(c.user,
-                             register +
-                             ("_"+str(subregister) if subregister else ""),
-                             "list",
-                             id)
-        return ApiController.list(self, ver, register, subregister, id)
-
-    def show(self, ver=None, register=None,
-             subregister=None, id=None, id2=None):
-        self._post_analytics(c.user,
-                             register +
-                             ("_"+str(subregister) if subregister else ""),
-                             "show",
-                             id)
-        return ApiController.show(self, ver, register, subregister, id, id2)
-
-    def update(self, ver=None, register=None,
-               subregister=None, id=None, id2=None):
-        self._post_analytics(c.user,
-                             register +
-                             ("_"+str(subregister) if subregister else ""),
-                             "update",
-                             id)
-        return ApiController.update(self, ver, register, subregister, id, id2)
-
-    def delete(self, ver=None, register=None,
-               subregister=None, id=None, id2=None):
-        self._post_analytics(c.user,
-                             register +
-                             ("_"+str(subregister) if subregister else ""),
-                             "delete",
-                             id)
-        return ApiController.delete(self, ver, register, subregister, id, id2)
-
-    def search(self, ver=None, register=None):
-        id = None
-        try:
-            params = MultiDict(self._get_search_params(request.params))
-            if 'q' in params.keys():
-                id = params['q']
-            if 'query' in params.keys():
-                id = params['query']
-        except ValueError, e:
-            log.debug(str(e))
-            pass
-        self._post_analytics(c.user, register, "search", id)
diff --git a/ckanext/googleanalytics/fanstatic_library/googleanalytics_event_tracking.js b/ckanext/googleanalytics/fanstatic_library/googleanalytics_event_tracking.js
index 60bcb5c..10a50b3 100644
--- a/ckanext/googleanalytics/fanstatic_library/googleanalytics_event_tracking.js
+++ b/ckanext/googleanalytics/fanstatic_library/googleanalytics_event_tracking.js
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ this.ckan.module('google-analytics', function(jQuery, _) {
       jQuery('a.resource-url-analytics').on('click', function() {
           var resource_url = encodeURIComponent(jQuery(this).prop('href'));
           if (resource_url) {
-            ga('send', 'event', 'Resource', 'Download', resource_url);
+            _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Resource', 'Download', resource_url]);
           }
       });
     }
diff --git a/ckanext/googleanalytics/plugin.py b/ckanext/googleanalytics/plugin.py
index bfebc54..febcee8 100644
--- a/ckanext/googleanalytics/plugin.py
+++ b/ckanext/googleanalytics/plugin.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import pylons
 import ckan.lib.helpers as h
 import ckan.plugins as p
 import gasnippet
-from routes.mapper import SubMapper, Mapper as _Mapper
 
 log = logging.getLogger('ckanext.googleanalytics')
 
@@ -68,58 +67,6 @@ class GoogleAnalyticsPlugin(p.SingletonPlugin):
         else:
             p.toolkit.add_template_directory(config, 'templates')
 
-    def before_map(self, map):
-        '''Add new routes that this extension's controllers handle.
-
-        See IRoutes.
-
-        '''
-        # Helpers to reduce code clutter
-        GET = dict(method=['GET'])
-        PUT = dict(method=['PUT'])
-        POST = dict(method=['POST'])
-        DELETE = dict(method=['DELETE'])
-        GET_POST = dict(method=['GET', 'POST'])
-        # intercept API calls that we want to capture analytics on
-        register_list = [
-            'package',
-            'dataset',
-            'resource',
-            'tag',
-            'group',
-            'related',
-            'revision',
-            'licenses',
-            'rating',
-            'user',
-            'activity'
-        ]
-        register_list_str = '|'.join(register_list)
-        # /api ver 3 or none
-        with SubMapper(map, controller='ckanext.googleanalytics.controller:GAApiController', path_prefix='/api{ver:/3|}',
-                    ver='/3') as m:
-            m.connect('/action/{logic_function}', action='action',
-                      conditions=GET_POST)
-
-        # /api ver 1, 2, 3 or none
-        with SubMapper(map, controller='ckanext.googleanalytics.controller:GAApiController', path_prefix='/api{ver:/1|/2|/3|}',
-                       ver='/1') as m:
-            m.connect('/search/{register}', action='search')
-
-        # /api/rest ver 1, 2 or none
-        with SubMapper(map, controller='ckanext.googleanalytics.controller:GAApiController', path_prefix='/api{ver:/1|/2|}',
-                       ver='/1', requirements=dict(register=register_list_str)
-                       ) as m:
-
-            m.connect('/rest/{register}', action='list', conditions=GET)
-            m.connect('/rest/{register}', action='create', conditions=POST)
-            m.connect('/rest/{register}/{id}', action='show', conditions=GET)
-            m.connect('/rest/{register}/{id}', action='update', conditions=PUT)
-            m.connect('/rest/{register}/{id}', action='update', conditions=POST)
-            m.connect('/rest/{register}/{id}', action='delete', conditions=DELETE)
-
-        return map
-
     def after_map(self, map):
         '''Add new routes that this extension's controllers handle.
 
diff --git a/ckanext/googleanalytics/templates/googleanalytics/snippets/googleanalytics_header.html b/ckanext/googleanalytics/templates/googleanalytics/snippets/googleanalytics_header.html
index 1486393..863a1e6 100644
--- a/ckanext/googleanalytics/templates/googleanalytics/snippets/googleanalytics_header.html
+++ b/ckanext/googleanalytics/templates/googleanalytics/snippets/googleanalytics_header.html
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 <script type="text/javascript">
-  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
-  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
-  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
-  })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
-
-  ga('create', '{{googleanalytics_id}}', '{{googleanalytics_domain}}');
-  ga('set', 'anonymizeIp', true);
-  ga('send', 'pageview');
+  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
+  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', '{{googleanalytics_id}}']);
+  _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '{{googleanalytics_domain}}']);
+  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
+  (function() {
+    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
+    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
+    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
+  })();
 </script>