Yeah, this issue can be a thorn in your side, I understand. What I found helpful was to clean up my browser a bit. Clearing browser cookies and history somehow got those elusive GA4 tags to start showing up in the preview debugger. It’s weird, but it worked.

Moreover, give this a go: revert to the version where you initially published the GA4… Read more

“Why isn’t my data showing up in my new GA4 dashboard when I change the tracking ID in my Python script from UA to GA4, even though it used to work with the UA tracking?”

The user is seeking advice on how to navigate certain changes in Google Analytics 4 (GA4), which differ from the previous version, GA3 (UA). The user has a large website with multiple pages, each with a specific language and a topic (like “tiger” or “cat”). In the old version, they could easily filter the data by topic or language with a… Read more

The difference you see in numbers between Universal Analytics (UA) and Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for your subdomain pages appears to be excessively large, and therefore, it is understandably concerning.

To understand this difference, it’s important to note that UA and GA4 have different ways of tracking and counting sessions, users, and… Read more

Hey there, I’ve hit a bit of a snag while trying to connect a new Google Analytics GA4 data stream to my BigQuery account. Despite combing through every tutorial I could find for guidance (and double-checking all my steps), I’m still coming up empty-handed a day later. There’s no data connection and I’m struggling to find any info on… Read more

The “_gl=xxx” you are seeing is a client/session ID. It’s added by GA to keep IDs consistent across top-level domains, which is a part of cross-domain tracking. Your current setup may be incorrectly flagging all domains for cross-domain tracking, which could be causing the issue.

Here’s how you can address it:

1. Go to Admin and click on Data… Read more

Sure, I can simplify that answer.

Basically, it’s not uncommon to experience discrepancies when transitioning from Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4). There can be a lot of reasons for those differences, such as small changes in how the two systems define things like users and events.

That being said, the difference in user… Read more

I’ve got this PHP service that’s crunching data from all sorts of places – UA, GA4, you name it. It’s picking up what it needs through the Analytics PHP client and gets all official-like by loading up a JSON credentials file. These are the same credentials that I’ve been using to run successful reports on properties I threw together manually.… Read more

Unfortunately in order to help you further, it’s essential to see the actual Laravel code that’s causing difficulty. However, keep in mind that Google has shifted from Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) which has different mechanisms for tracking events. UA used to handle this with trackable ‘events’, whereas GA4 tracks ‘… Read more

This sounds like a frustrating issue. Without seeing your specific setup, it’s challenging to provide an exact solution, however, I can suggest a few things that may help. First, ensure that you’re correctly setting the events as conversion events in your Google Analytics 4. Sometimes, it might be an issue of not configuring the events properly.… Read more