Hey, here’s a thing that’s been bugging me. You know how we got those user ids and page titles in our app, right? Now what if we wanted to see how many times each user has viewed a page? Picture this, it’s right below. I’ve made a report showing each user’s id and the page titles, but for some reason, I just can’t seem to add the user id/ pages in… Read more

Hey, I’ve been wondering…since July 1, 2023, are there no more hits getting sent from universal analytics? Also, besides react’s plugin for GA4, are there any other plugins that work with Google Analytics 4?

Hey, I’ve been working with exclude filters in the GA4 account and something’s not adding up. Even though they show up fine in Big Query reports, they’re nowhere to be seen in the GA4 reports. Any ideas about what could be causing this hiccup?

As of now, Google Analytics 4 does not officially support the User Activity API which was available in Universal Analytics. The way data is handled and structured is quite different in Google Analytics 4, focusing more on event-driven data. This new paradigm shift does not currently provide a built-in method to extract all event data for… Read more

“How can I correct my GA4 setup on two websites, one embedded with an iframe in the other, so that the source doesn’t display as ‘direct’ for the embedded site? I manually set the client_id and session_id since the iframe generates manually too. I noticed that both sites share the same GA cookie value. The Google Analytics Debugger shows no… Read more

While both gtag and GTM’s dataLayer are used for tracking purposes in Google Analytics, they do have certain differences. Particularly, the ecommerce property in dataLayer is needed due primarily to how Google Tag Manager (GTM) is designed. GTM uses the dataLayer object as a virtual layer for storing and managing variables that are used to send s… Read more

It seems like you forgot to specify the particular term you’re asking about. Regardless, there may be terms used across various analytics platforms and not exclusive to Google Analytics. The terminologies differ from platform to platform based on their design and functions. It’s always a good idea to refer to the platform’s official guide or user… Read more

It sounds like an interesting challenge you’re dealing with! You might want to debug the events using the website https://ga-dev-tools.web.app/ga4/event-builder/. It’s a practical tool that can provide more detailed insights. Hope this helps you understand the issue better!

Unfortunately, Google Analytics (Universal Analytics) does not explicitly provide these specific metrics (active storage, long-term storage, streaming inserts, streaming reads). However, you can estimate them based on your website or app’s usage data. For example, the storage (active and long-term) would be related to how much data your analytics… Read more

The problem you are experiencing with extracting data from your GA4 report could be due to a couple of things.

Firstly, the data update interval for GA4 could be set to a larger duration, thus the most recent data might not be available at the time of your request. If it’s set to update every hour, the report you pull a half hour after the last… Read more

The individual is seeking to track every instance of a button click on their website using Google Tag Manager (GTM) and Google Analytics 4 (GA4). They have assigned each button a unique label and set up an event in their GTM where the action recorded will be the specific element clicked and the label the text that is clicked on. These specific… Read more