Absolutely, here’s the crux of it: the GA4 Measurement Protocol is not the same as the UA Measurement Protocol. It only takes POST requests, with the request body formatted in JSON, and requires a Secret and Measurement ID.

It seems like you might be attempting to mirror GA4’s client-side behavior from your backend; unfortunately, that’s not… Read more

Yes, your understanding is correct. In a .Net MAUI app, you’re intending to send usage statistics to Google Analytics, specifically data regarding screen visits. At the moment, you can transmit event data through the Plugin.Firebase package but are unclear if this function extends to ‘Pages and Screens’. You’ve also discovered that the data is… Read more

Gotcha! You aimed to extract just the names of items from your dataLayer, and you were getting an array. But what you wanted was a text list separated by commas. The idea is to convert the array into a comma-separated string, right? If that’s the case, you were on the right track!

Your initial attempt put the entire ‘item_name’ object into your… Read more

At the core of your query, you’re seeking advice on how to automatically import refunds data into Google Analytics 4 using their API. Unfortunately, it seems you’re having trouble because Google Analytics 4 documentation around this is lacking. You’ve found a potential tool in the NPM package ‘@google-analytics/data’ that appears to extract… Read more

The error message you’re seeing suggests that the ‘google.rpc’ module is missing. This module is part of the ‘grpcio’ package. You’ve already included the ‘grpcio’ package in your code, but you’re still seeing the error, which suggests that ‘grpcio’ might not have been installed correctly.

When working with AWS Lambda, you have to ensure that all… Read more

Hey there, you know what’s been bugging me? I was hanging out on GA4, checking out my session numbers like you do, right? So, I noticed something kinda funky. The big total number on the top and the sum of all the individual rows – they ain’t the same, dude! I’ve got a pic to explain better – it’s right here. Those numbers are saying it’s all… Read more

It seems like there’s a bit of a misunderstanding about how to effectively debug; despite its name, Debug View might not be the most efficient tool for you. It’s known that GA4’s interface has some bugs, so ideally you don’t want to rely on it when there are better options available. Most in the industry actually avoid using the debug view in G… Read more

No worries, I see what you’re getting at. It can get a bit tricky trying to handle multiple dimensions at once with BigQuery. The idea is to sift both ‘page_path’ and ‘previous_page_path’ out of the data, right? Here’s how you might fix that “hiccup”:

When filtering based on a dimension, for instance, ‘page_path’, you can do an UNNEST and then a…

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So, I’ve got each of our UA accounts switched over to a shiny new GA4 account, right? But the thing is, we’re still rocking the old UA-XXXX code, which is based on this analytics.js source code. Come July of 2023, will we still receive data on these new GA4 accounts we’ve got linked up? Or, do we need to put things into gear and go ahead with…

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Hey, I’m pretty much a newbie when it comes to Google Analytics. I managed to switch from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4 by setting up a new GA4 property. The catch is, over at my company, our website relies on something called Google Conversion Id for the Google Ads Conversion Tracking. The thing is, all the tutorials I’ve checked out…

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