As of now, Google Sheets indeed has a limitation where it’s unable to directly retrieve data from Google Analytics 4 (GA4) properties. It’s currently paired up with the older version, Universal Analytics. While there has been no official communication from Google about when Google Sheets might include GA4 support, given the company’s efforts to… Read more

There could be several reasons for this issue. One common mistake is using the same value for the user_id and client_id fields when sending events via the Measurement Protocol. While both identify users, they serve different functions. Google Analytics 4 uses client_id to identify unique browsers and devices, while user_id is used to identify… Read more

So, as a frontend developer, I often grapple with GA’s “send instructions” that unfortunately don’t contain any useful information about which property or website it belongs to.

I’ve been digging through Google’s documentation – there must be a good dozen pages of it – but I can’t seem to find any instructions on reusing code. At the moment, the… Read more

Hey there! I was wondering, is it possible to display any data from our explorations in a report format? Like, can I possibly whip up a report using data from specific explorations?

Unfortunately, as of now, Google’s API does not provide an endpoint to directly open or retrieve an existing report from Google Analytics 4 (GA4). The API mainly provides ways to build new reports from raw data as you’ve mentioned. So, if you want to access a report that’s already in GA4 via Java or Python, you would need to recreate the report… Read more

It seems like you’re encountering an issue with Unbounce’s call-to-action (CTA) button which is using an internal redirect before directing to the final external link. This is causing you to lose the ‘_gl’ parameter which is added by Google’s Cross-domain Measurement for tracking purposes.

While you’ve tried using JavaScript scripts found online,… Read more

The issue might be related to your URL configuration. The Enhanced Measurement in GA4 tracks search queries based on the URL parameter you specified. It defaults to “query”, but if your site search mechanism uses a different URL parameter, you’ll have to adapt the settings to reflect that. If the URL parameter is correct, it could be possible that… Read more

So I’m scratching my head a bit on this one. I’ve been smoothly sailing along getting sessionConversionRate for a variety of conversions using GA4 Data API. It’s all smooth sailing as long as the request metric looks like sessionConversionRate:conversionName.
Now I have a customer (unfortunately I don’t have direct access to their GA4 account) who…

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