It seems like there might be an authentication issue with your OAuth configuration. A 403 error is typically tied to permissions. You might need to double-check the account permissions for the clientID and clientSecret you’re using, and make sure they have the necessary access to the GA4 account. If everything’s set properly there, you could try… Read more

Absolutely. Upgrading to the paid version of BigQuery does allow you an extended data retention period, although it doesn’t automatically change from the 60-day limit. You might have to manually adjust this.

As for your GA4 data, it’s a bit tricky. Past GA4 data isn’t retroactive or backfilled. This essentially means that historical data from… Read more

Hey folks, I’m tinkering a bit with the GA4 ‘Create events’ under Admin – Events. Here’s what I’ve been trying to do — I wanted to divide my purchase events. If an eCommerce value is above $250, I’ve classified it as a wholesale purchase. If it’s below $250, I’m considering it as a regular purchase.

And here’s the catch – both of these are… Read more

Sure, I get what you’re saying. Although GA4 doesn’t have a specific dimension for this pie chart in Looker Studio, you can still achieve it by blending data.

In this blend, one part will contain only new users, and the other will have only returning users, which you can get by subtracting new users from the total user count. For the two parts to… Read more

It seems like you’re trying to add a new custom dimension in GA4 which might not be created at the GA4 interface first. You have to create it there and ensure it’s correctly set as an event-scoped dimension. Getting the data through Java could be more about API querying. If you’ve got the dimension set right, then it might be more about properly… Read more

How can I track lots of different strings on GA4 like I could easily do on GA UA with ‘ga(‘pageview’, ‘page’+string);’? Do I really have to pre-set them all first in the admin console?

It sounds like you’re dealing with a bit of a mystery. The problem may be due to the way GA4 handles “active users” calculations. Sometimes, active users from different time periods or sessions might be treated as individual users in separate user groups but as a single user in the total count. So, even though there’s no overlap within groups, GA4… Read more

Hey there! I’ve been messing around with GA4 in Looker Studio and set up two events – ‘view’ and ‘application’. Each one has a ‘name’ parameter attached.

I’ve made a pivot table that showcases this data, using event count as a measure. Here’s a peak at it: [TABLE](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gJTgW.png). So far so good, right? For this table, I’m… Read more

The issue you’re experiencing could be the result of the way that Google Analytics 4 (GA4) calculates Engagement rate and Bounce rate, which might not be aligned with your custom dimension settings. When you apply a custom dimension, GA4 might not find suitable data to calculate the Engagement rate and Bounce rate, which could explain while these… Read more