fix: lite site updates

[chickenn00dle]

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Changes proposed in this Pull Request:

Closes https://linear.app/a8c/issue/NPPM-2550/add-ga-to-lite-sites-and-remove-permatters-script and resolves https://a8c.slack.com/archives/C07LB7B14GZ/p1769105774757559

This PR makes a few updates to fix lite site including:

• Add missing list item bullets
  
• Remove perfmatters delayed scripts
  
• Adds pageview analytics
  

How to test the changes in this Pull Request:

More specific list styles

1. Set up a story with a bulleted list in it.
2. Enable Lite Site.
3. View your story - note your list is gone.
4. Apply this PR.
5. Refresh your story and confirm your list is back.
6. Go to you Lite Site homepage and confirm the list of stories does not have bullets, and is nicely spaced out.

Remove perfmatters delayed scripts

1. Ensure perfmatters is enabled and you are using default newspack settings
2. Visit a non-lite site page as a reader
3. Verify the perfmatters script is still present in the page source. (look for perfmatters-delayed-scripts-js)
4. Visit the lite site as a reader
5. View page source. On release you will see perfmatters related delayed script. On this branch you will not

Adds GA4 pageview analytics

1. Ensure site kit is active and setup
2. Visit the lite site as a reader
3. View page source. On release there should be no analytics script. On this branch there should be
4. Visit a few lite site pages, wait a few minutes, then verify the pageviews are present in analytics
5. Disconnect Site Kit
6. Verify the analytics snippet is no longer present in lite site

Note: You may need to add the following snippet for the events to send:

add_filter(
	'googlesitekit_allowed_tag_environment_types',
	function( $types ) {
		$types[] = 'local'; // or development
		return $types;
	}
);

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Pull request overview

This PR makes three key updates to fix issues with the lite site functionality: making list styles more specific to avoid removing content lists, disabling Perfmatters script delay on lite site requests, and adding Google Analytics 4 pageview tracking.

Changes:

• Made CSS selectors for list styles more specific by adding .post-list class to avoid affecting content lists
• Added filter to disable Perfmatters delayed scripts on lite site requests
• Integrated GA4 analytics snippet into lite site templates when Google Site Kit is active

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
includes/lite-site/templates/lite-site-styles.php	Updated list styles to use .post-list class selector for specificity
includes/lite-site/templates/archive.php	Added .post-list class to ul element and GA4 snippet call
includes/lite-site/templates/single.php	Added GA4 snippet call to template head
includes/lite-site/class-lite-site.php	Added is_lite_site_request() method and get_ga4_snippet() method for analytics
includes/plugins/class-perfmatters.php	Added filter to disable JS delay on lite site requests
includes/plugins/google-site-kit/class-googlesitekit.php	Changed get_sitekit_ga4_settings() visibility from private to public

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[leogermani]

Crazy how perfmatters add the js snippet directly to the buffer output, not relying on any filter!

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🎉 This PR is included in version 6.30.0-alpha.3 🎉

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