Sure! When switching to GA4 from Universal Analytics, the events need to be translated uniformly. In the case of Universal Analytics, ‘action’ (ea) maps to ‘event_name’ in GA4. Similarly, ‘event_category’ (ec), ‘event_label’ (el) and ‘event_value’ (ev) from Universal Analytics change to parameters with the same names in GA4 along with their… Read more

It appears you’ve encountered a fairly unusual issue with the Google Analytics Reporting API. After thoroughly checking your request and dates, it’s quite strange for userEngagementDuration to produce inconsistent results, especially isolated to pairing with the medium dimension. As you mentioned, there is no sampling level issue with… Read more

Hey there,
So I’ve been giving this Google Analytics guide the old college try, following it step by step and providing session_id with my events from the Measurement Protocol. Here is the guideline I’ve been using: Google Analytics DevGuide.

And here’s what my call to GA4 looks like: GA4 Call.

I’ve double checked my raw data and it matches… Read more

Hey friends!
Just wondering if any of you have tripped over this issue as well. I’ve been trying to save GA4 query results in BigQuery as JSONL (delimited) but I’m hitting some snags. Specifically, columns that have NULLS are just poof – gone in the downloaded JSON. If you try to throw the lot back in as a table (upload -> JSONL) and run a query,… Read more

The user seems to be having trouble with the disappearance of ‘item_category’ parameters in their Explore reports. Despite their data and configuration methods seeming to be sound, the ‘item_category2’, ‘item_category3’, ‘item_category4’, and ‘item_category5’ compartments, which they typically used to gather specific ecommerce information, no… Read more

Hey, it seems like the report you’re referring to on Google analytics is comprised of several dimensions, including ‘Date’ as well as a few metrics, namely ‘users’, ‘sessions’ and ‘pageviews’.

Now, I noticed that you’ve added ‘datehour’ to your report. This likely causes a discrepancy in your results unless your request is identical to the report… Read more

It seems like your issue could be related to the syntax in your code. The liquid variables, which output strings, should be enclosed in quotes. Additionally, consider adding conditional statements to prevent certain name-value pair from appearing when they have no values. An example of how you could adjust your code to this effect has been… Read more

Hey there, I need to gather some clarity on an issue I’ve run into with my Single Page App. I’ve been doing some work with a GA4 configuration tag and I’m trying to streamline data tracking across different tag fires. I thought maybe I could add my parameters to the GA4 config parameters and set it to trigger each time the user changes paths.… Read more

To track unique logins into your event, you will need to use Dimensions instead of Metrics in Google Analytics API. A particular type of dimension you could use is User Scoped Custom Dimensions. Metrics essentially quantify measurements (like total events) while dimensions provide context to those (like which users caused those events). With User… Read more

Hey Patricia!

How about trying to specify updateMask as a query parameter? Here are a couple of ways to do so:

– [Option 1: Using web_stream_data.default_uri](https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/config/admin/v1/rest/v1beta/properties.dataStreams/patch?updateMask=web_stream_data.default_uri)
– [Option 2: Using… Read more

It sounds like you’re using GA4, not Universal Analytics. Here, you need to set up the event_label and event_category parameters as custom dimensions in your Google Analytics profile. Please note that it generally takes about 48 hours for changes to take effect. Until then, you might see the result value as “not set”. Importantly, once you’ve… Read more

Sure, let me break this down for you!

Now, blocking or not having cookies doesn’t stop tracking from occurring. It only tends to lose the context of tracking, like the session and the user scope. In your case additional tracking isn’t required as you’re already logged into Stack Overflow.

As for OneTrust, I don’t think it overrides the cookie… Read more

While the query seems to be working generally, the higher engagement rate suggests that there might be an overcount of the engaged sessions. This could be due to any number of reasons, such as duplicate session data in the raw table, incorrect filtration on the query, or even a miscalculation of the engaged sessions. Checking for these issues may… Read more