Ah, gotcha! It seems like there’s a simple reason for your geographic data not appearing. It turns out that the city and country information can only be automatically collected by some specific tools. These are: gtag, Google Tag Manager, or Google Analytics for Firebase. That’s probably why your city and country data is showing up as “(not set)”.… Read more

Gonna take a wild guess here – I reckon you’re using the good ‘ol Google Analytics Spreadsheet Add-on, right? Unfortunately, it was made to jibe with Universal Analytics. Don’t know for sure if it’s working with the reporting API or the core reporting API.

Now, about the GA4 issue, it definitely won’t work with GA4, mate. The GA4 APIs are in beta…

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You’re actually already on the right track! In fact, Firebase Analytics events are the same as GA4 events. So, you don’t even need to connect your GTM container for GA4 migration from GA3.

The main thing you need to do is integrate Firebase Analytics into your mobile app. That’s how you’ll be able to pass events data into GA4. The cool thing… Read more

Sure, I can help you with that. Here’s a good way to approach it by using an UPDATE-SET-FROM statement, which is pretty handy but isn’t explicitly listed in the Google documentation.

The basic pattern you’d use goes a little something like this:

`sql
update ds.targettable t
set t.targetfield = s.sourcefield
from (select keyfield, sourcefield… Read more

In the process of identifying session-level traffic sources in GA4 data within BigQuery, you’ve noticed that the traffic_source variables relate to the traffic source that initially acquired the user, not necessarily the most current one. Currently, you can track traffic from marketing channels by using utm tags. However, for channels such as… Read more

There could be a few potential issues causing your current query to not return the expected result. The most likely one is that the ‘product_id’ and ‘site_interaction’ keys may not be present in the same event parameter. Unnesting the event_params columns will create a separate row for every key-value pair, and trying to join them on the same row… Read more

“Hey there! I’ve been working with Google Analytics Data API v1Beta and a custom dimension to pull some data from GA4 account. Python is my tool of choice to get the eventCount metric with keys like date, campaignId, campaignName and eventName. My end goal is to figure out the eventCount for various eventName in different campaignName. Any info on… Read more

It appears that your website’s in-page links have started including additional, potentially unwanted parameters which may be causing the page to refresh with each click. While these parameters, usually used for tracking user behavior across multiple domains, seem to be related to your Google Analytics 4 (GA4) setup, you mentioned not having made… Read more

Hey there, I need a little help! In GA4’s Non-Google Cost view, Google Display campaigns are showing up, but I think that’s incorrect. How can I rectify that, you think?

There’s this new UTM – “source_platform” that sorta helps in telling apart what’s coming from Google and Manual (meaning, every other provider, though there are more categories… Read more

In general, it sounds like you’re trying to send a GA Session ID as a user property and also register it as a user-level dimension within GA4. GA has its own way of managing sessions, so injecting your own session ID might cause some discrepancies or confusion.

If you treat the session ID both as a user property and dimension, you wont… Read more