Hey there! I’ve been playing around with Google Analytics and I was trying to pull the real-time reports displayed on their website. I’ve attempted using their API to grab data through dimensions and metrics. Is there possibly another way I could fetch data from their dashboard straight to my reactjs app?

The differences in data you’re noticing between Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and Universal Analytics (UA) could indeed be due to data sampling. Sampling is a method Google uses to generate quicker reports. For large data sets, it only processes a portion of the data (sample) instead of the entire data set. One way to minimize the effect of sampling is… Read more

Funny, I had the same question too! After some consideration, I personally decided to go with Option 2. To me, ‘view_item_list’ seems to suggest a product listing page or a section of recommended products. The only downside I see is it might overstate the views for the main product. But then again, it’s all a matter of how you interpret the data, isn’t it?

“Hey guys, need a bit of help here. I’ve got this piece of Laravel code in my app that’s currently sending UA events to Google Analytics. However, I’m struggling a bit when it comes to sending these over to GA4, I’m not getting much from their docs. Has anyone of you managed to get this sorted? Here’s the current code FYI.”

It seems like you’re trying to capture Google Analytics events from the network logs of a website, but you’re running into a problem where the events don’t appear when you automate the process with Chrome, despite appearing when you track them manually. You’ve already turned on your network and performance logs, which was a good initial step. The… Read more

What I’m trying to do

Yo guys, I’ve got a fun challenge here. I’m trying to figure out how to create a user_id in GA4 that’s hooked up to BigQuery.

Here’s my strategy so far

So I’ve been getting into the trenches and following this online guide:

1. I’ve been harnessing GTM to bring out the best of GA4.

2. The links are in place between GA4 and Big…

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For the remove_from_cart event in GA4, you should only include the item that was removed from the cart in the items array, not what’s left. I know it’s a bit confusing, but I hope that clears it up for you!