Migrating Classic Sites to New Sites

Google announced on November 1, 2022, that they were migrating Classic Sites to New Sites in February 2023.  As of January 10, 2024 all remaining Classic Sites have been migrated to Google's New Sites product. Classic Sites versions of these sites are no longer available.

What does this mean for your organization?

Classic sites in your domain have been migrated and are now available as “Drafts” in New Sites. Site owners can review and publish these migrated drafts in New Sites if they haven’t already. Until site owners publish these auto-migrated drafts, site viewers will see an error message when they visit the site URLs. Note that the Classic Sites versions are no longer available.

For more information about Google Sites, refer to the Sites Help Center.

What do you need to do?

You can find a file in Google Cloud Storage that contains details of the migrated sites, their respective owners, links to exports of attachments for converted sites, and links to download exports of Takeout data of the classic sites.

If the sites’ owners want their sites to be available to viewers, they will need to publish their migrated unpublished New Google Sites drafts. You can use the Classic Sites Manager to find the links to the migrated “drafts” in New Sites. Classic sites that did not have an eligible owner for migration have not been migrated to New Sites but have been exported and shared as a Takeout archive with the domain super admin. We’ve also shared them with the site owner(s) if they are eligible to receive Takeout data from Classic Sites.

Classic sites’ Takeout data is available for download in Google Cloud Storage for one year.

Please note that Takeout archives are unavailable if classic sites were:

• Deleted by the user, or
• Manually migrated and republished on the same web address