Hey, I’m currently working on a project where I need to create a website in C#. I’m trying to integrate GA4 and honestly, it’s a bit of a head-scratcher. I would like to build it so any Gmail account could connect to the GA4 API (just using the usual user id and password), then select their property account from a list and see their respective…

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Hey there! What you’re experiencing is completely normal. Google Analytics groups dimensions by unique values and then sums up the metrics. So, for example, if we have Report A with dimensions like country, region, and city, let’s say with values like South Africa, Western Cape, and Cape Town, respectively. Now, if there’s a Report B just with the…

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Hey there! I’m working with the Google Analytics API and attempting to pull the user IDs. I’ve set up a custom dimension for it (userId) as “customUser:userId”. But, although the request executes, there’s no value returned for the custom dimension, even though it works fine for standard ones.

Do you know if there’s a certain amount of time we… Read more

Unfortunately, you cannot directly change the ‘deviceCategory’ value in Google Analytics. This is a built-in field which is automatically populated by Google and it only supports ‘desktop’, ‘tablet’, and ‘mobile’ categories. The only way roundabout way would be to possibly create a separate segment or filter for Android devices specifically, or… Read more

Yes, it is not unusual for there to be some discrepancies between ecommerce purchase data in Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and the actual database record. The level of discrepancy varies, but a difference of 20 to 30% can sometimes be observed. This discrepancy arises due to several reasons. Firstly, not all users enable cookies, which GA4 uses for… Read more

Hey, I seem to be having this issue with GA4 where my basic tag isn’t showing in my Google Analytics, even though it’s there, see:

gtag("event", "purchase", '.yiihelpersJson::htmlEncode([
                        "transaction_id" => $payment_id,
                        "value" => $value,
                        "currency" => $currency,…

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While you could technically use one Google Analytics profile to manage all your sites, it’s probably a better idea to create separate accounts for each one. This way, you can avoid some potential complications down the road. For instance, when you’re extracting data via API, you would have to filter it by domain every time if all your sites were… Read more

It sounds like you’re working hard to find an endpoint to batch data before sending it off, but you’re having a hard time finding a suitable replacement for the ‘/batch’ endpoint in GA4. Currently, it appears GA4 doesn’t directly support the batch endpoint as Universal Analytics did.

As an alternative for bulk data transfer, you might consider… Read more