You’re right! It does seem a bit odd. But actually, there might be some reasons why there’s a slight discrepancy. For one, GA4’s pre-made reports aren’t always super reliable. So we often suggest using the Explorer or exporting the data for analysis somewhere else if that’s a possibility for you.

Secondly, you’ll want to double-check you don’t… Read more

You know, it’s kind of a hassle because I grab data from the GA4 API daily for our management team. They want the latest report on the website ASAP. But timing’s the issue, right? If I download the data too early, it’s incomplete, which isn’t that much help.

We noticed that when the event data gets exported to our BigQuery dataset, that’s… Read more

Sure, how about: “Hey there, I’ve been working on getting a report for the device dimension using PHP. But when I add on another dimension, usergender, I end up getting an empty response. I was hoping the report would show the response of the other dimension even if one was empty. I have tried using setIncludeEmptyRows, but it hasn’t solved the… Read more

Hey there, I’ve been working on this GA4 upgrade and set up the link to our application. The good news is the connection’s working, we can see a user count popping up in GA4. But here’s the catch, after creating custom dimensions in GA4 and mirroring that in the code, there’s a bit of a snag. When we run the application, the debugger console s… Read more

It sounds like you might be having issues with how sequences are interpreted in your Analytics platform. Your current segment might be looking for sessions where event_one and event_two happen at the same exact time, rather than sequentially during the same session. The solution to your problem lies in using ‘Sequences’ within your segments. This… Read more

In GA4, ‘currency’ does not seem to be provided in the same way as in UA. So, you might need to set it up manually as a custom dimension to track it. The old APIs (Universal Analytics) will continue to function after July 1 but Google will gradually deprecate them, so it’s good you’re moving now. Overall, some tweaking might be required to get all… Read more