Oscar
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Alright mate, here’s a quick method to get GA4 to play nice with the Bulgarian URLs.
Use the back-end to read your Google Analytics Data. You can use the URLDecode class in Java to decode the URL. Replace “encodedString” with the value of the dimension that contains the URL.
Something like this…
`java
import java.net.URLDecoder;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
String encodedString = “https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FURL%23Syntax”;
String decodedString = URLDecoder.decode(encodedString, “UTF-8”);
System.out.println(decodedString);
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
System.err.println(e);
}
}}
`
This should give you properly decoded URLs for your analysis. Give it a shot! -
The general format for “timestamp_micros” seems correct. However, Google Analytics 4 (GA4) ‘timestamp_micros’ requires values to be in microseconds since the Unix epoch (1 January 1970), expressed as a 64-bit integer. If you’re using the conventional ISO 8601 timestamp format (which it looks like you are), you might not see the events reflect the correct timestamp in GA4.
You need to convert your timestamps to the Unix epoch format in microseconds. For your requirement of adding a timestamp dimension to the offline data when importing it to GA4, unfortunately, as of now, there’s no straight way of doing that without using Google Tag Manager (GTM). Since GA4 is event-based, a timestamp dimension would be an event parameter and such parameters can only be sent event-wise, which GTM does by default.
If you’re not seeing the results even after 24 hours, also ensure the date range of the data you are uploading is within the last 14 months, as this is the default lookback window in GA4 for most reports. You also need to cross-check whether the user property in GA4 matches the unique identifier in your CRM. If the problem persists, it’s recommended to get in touch with Google Support for further assistance.
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It sounds like you’ve been trying to set up a segment on Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to exclude sessions that come through email, but you’re still seeing these email sessions in your reports. You set up your segment as ‘Session Based’ and in the ‘Exclusions’ you made sure ‘Medium’ is set to exactly match ‘Email’. Despite this, Medium set to email continues appearing in your reports. You’re unsure if this is an issue with GA4 or your setup, as this didn’t happen with UA. Temporarily vs permanently excluding ‘Email’ didn’t help either. This is a complex issue which requires a deeper dive into the settings and perhaps consulting a GA4 expert to resolve.
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Hey! Unfortunately, Google doesn’t let you use an iframe to display their analytics page directly on your website. But, not all hope is lost! You’ve got another option using BigQuery. Set up Google Analytics events to flow into BigQuery and then draw that data into your website to make your own bespoke analytics page – something that’s quite in tune with your style and the look of your website. It’s like having your own customized Google Analytics dashboard. Hope that helps!
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As of now, there isn’t a distinct ‘/batch’ endpoint in Google Analytics 4 (GA4) similar to the Universal Analytics. That said, you can send multiple events in a single payload by adding multiple event objects to the events array while using the ‘https://www.google-analytics.com/mp/collect’ endpoint. Bear in mind, though, there are some limits on the payload size and number of hits that could be sent in a single payload. Falling back to using the server-side Google Tag Manager is a viable alternative if this doesn’t meet your needs. For the realtime event issue, GA4 handles it differently than Universal Analytics and it might take a little longer to appear in the reports compared to Universal Analytics.
