What you’re experiencing is quite normal. Currently, Google Analytics does not support filtering out internal traffic for data sent via the Measurement Protocol. This limitation means that, even if you do create a custom filter in the testing area, your IP address filter isn’t compatible with the Measurement Protocol data, which is likely causing… Read more

Hey there,

I’ve been using this cool GA4 tutorial to make an API call to Google Analytics 4. The code there works great for listing my data according to certain dimensions and metrics.

Plus, I’ve been playing around with Google Tag Manager and making my own tags and triggers like this one right here – . Pretty neat, right?

For instance,… Read more

“We’ve been switching from UA to GA4 and collected a month of data. We also set up enhanced measurements. I’ve noticed that UA is showing a lot more pageviews and users than GA4, and this is seriously skewing our stats. Can you help me figure out what’s going wrong and how to fix it?”

It sounds like you’re experiencing some interesting quirks while setting up Google Analytics 4 (GA4) on your website. It’s normal to see (not set) values when dealing with custom dimensions. This usually indicates that the parameter you’re trying to pull the value from wasn’t set when the event was triggered. With “session_start” and “first_visit”… Read more

In order to include extra dimensions and metrics in your GA4 analytics data on non-web and non-android platforms, you would typically need to customize your JSON message to include them. Google Analytics has an API that you can use to send custom dimensions or parameters as part of each hit. You would need to define the extra dimensions in your… Read more

Page views and events in Google Analytics are fundamentally different and serve different purposes. A page view in Google Analytics signifies the loading of a webpage that the tracking code is installed on. This is an essential part of understanding users’ navigation patterns on a website, the popularity of different pages, and the overall traffic… Read more

It sounds like you’re facing a puzzle where data from your website is uploaded correctly to Google Tag Manager (GTM), but inconsistently shows up in Google Analytics 4 (GA4). You’re seeing cases where some of the information (parameters) you’re sending don’t always appear in GA4, and it’s not the same information that’s missing each time. Unfor… Read more

Sure, it’s likely that error you’re experiencing while trying to integrate GA4 with BigQuery can be due to several potential issues. For example, your project doesn’t have the required permissions, there’s a problem with your billing account, or you haven’t properly established a connection between BigQuery and GA4.

As for the VPC Network… Read more

Hey there! I really could use a bit of help with something I’ve run into during work. I noticed that I couldn’t use the “Explore” feature for a scatterplot in a client’s GA4 Explorer. The thing is, I was trying to draw a simple scatterplot: view_item on the X-axis, price on the Y-axis, and each point represented by item_name. The aim was to check…

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