I’m in a bit of a jam trying to get GA4 e-commerce operational for a client. Seems like data doesn’t want to budge from the testing environment to any GA4 property. Everything’s peachy with the production website when it comes to preview and DebugView, but once I switch the preview address to the staging website, GA suddenly stops tracking…

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We’re currently using the Measurement Protocol in Google Universal Analytics to parse our streaming server logs and post everything as events. But we’re now wondering how we can make this happen for GA4. For instance, here’s an example of a post we make with a PHP script using curl when someone tunes into one of our HD…

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I’m currently using the Osano Developer plan for a Cookie Consent Manager on my website, which only uses essential cookies and Google Analytics 4 (GA4) cookies. I’ve noticed that whilst my Cookie Consent initially works and no GA4 cookies are set until a user opts-in, afterwards if a user opts out, the cookies don’t appear to be removed. I’m… Read more

Upgrading to the paid version will eliminate the 60 day limit, allowing you to retain data for as long as you need. However, past GA4 data might not be available if it wasn’t previously linked to BigQuery, since GA4 data is not retroactively populated into BigQuery once the link is established. You can start collecting data from the day you link… Read more

Hey! The thing about the Google Analytics 4 BigQuery exporter is that it doesn’t have a backfilling option. This means it won’t automatically pull the historical data beyond the point when you set it up. So right now you’ll only see the data from the last few days because that’s when you connected it.

But, don’t lose hope! There’s a manual way… Read more

To access audience data from Google Analytics 4 in BigQuery, you must first ensure your Google Analytics 4 property is linked to BigQuery. The data will then be exported on an ongoing basis from Google Analytics to your BigQuery dataset. Audience data, however, may not directly be available in BigQuery. Instead, you would use the user_properties… Read more

Yes, there is a way to import your Google Analytics data into an S3 bucket without using AppFlow. You can accomplish this by writing a script using a programming language such as Python with the Google Analytics and AWS SDKs. The script would essentially use the Google Analytics API to fetch your data and then upload it to your S3 bucket with the… Read more