Questions tagged [google-analytics]
Google Analytics is a free web analytics solution provided by Google, featuring several client-side APIs, as well as REST APIs for Data Export and for Management.
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Two GA4 accounts, two different interfaces
I am confused as to why two GA4 accounts have different interfaces. Specifically, one has a "Business Objectives" section but the other has a "Life cycle" section.
Can anyone ...
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Blocking "malicious" VPN access
I run a small website that averages about 500 hits a day. About once a month I have a day where I see a spike of 5,000 in GA4. When looking closer, the traffic would appear to be a bot using a VPN ...
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Edit permissions required on this Google Analytics property?
In Search Console (Settings > Associations), I'm getting the following notice and am unsure how to resolve it. In the 'Property Access Management' section of my Analytics Admin section, I'm listed ...
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Why are Samsung Devices with Mobile Model Name/Number ending in "U" not converting on E-commerce platform?
Within Google Analytics I can see that for the last 30 days our website has not been converting for any Samsung Device that ends with a "U" (Which I believe is the US version of the phone) ...
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Customer Journey analysis in Google Analytics 4
In GA4 dashboard, I'd like to see how customers move across the page types of my e-commerce.
Ideally I'd like to achieve something like the Journey analysis from Contentsquare, even in the standard ...
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Bot is crawling urls that do not exist in my site. How to identify and fix them? [duplicate]
When I look at access.log in my site, I find these entries in the file. These files are not generated by me and not sure where is bingbot finding them. Is this some spam sitemap.xml? I was trying to ...
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Can I use GTM and GA4 tracking codes together?
Can I use GTM and GA4 tracking codes together into the website code?
Thanks
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Why is the engagedSessions metric incompatible with the pageTitle dimension in path exploration report?
The [GA4] Data compatibility - Analytics Help documentation suggests checking GA4 Dimensions & Metrics Explorer to verify whether certain dimensions and metrics are compatible. According to it, ...
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GA4 Bug : Custom Channel Grouping doesn't work properly
I regularly update the custom channel grouping in GA4. As you know, this feature is manually customizable from the admin section, and the results apply to historical data. All reports with the custom ...
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Why does google ads not coinde with google analytics [duplicate]
Google ads says that my ads gets 100 clicks, but google analytics says that my site gets 5 visits. Isn't google contradict to itself?
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One or two streams for subdomain in GAnalytics via Tag Manager?
I have a catalog, say at https://example.com
Then I have a blog, say at https://subdomain.example.com
The catalog was built time ago and the blog is new.
I have the Google Tag Manager at both sites. ...
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How long does it take for a visit to a page appears in the report?
In the Realtime overview page of GA4 I see there are pages that are being viewed. However, after a while these pages don't appear in the reports. Is there anything that I'm missing?
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What does a report without landing page mean?
If there is no user landing on the page, then why does Google Analytics 4 show the sources in the report?
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How to view cyrillic URL in Google Analytics using Google Analytics
I'm new to Google analytics and because my website URL are Cyrillic in Google analytic I see page path like this:
/%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BD%D1%8F/%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BD%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D0%...
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Is it possible to have a secondary dimension in Google Analytics app?
I want to set a report in Google Analytics app with the first dimension is Source, and the second dimension is Page title. It seems that the app does not support secondary dimension. I have an idea to ...
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How to remove site name in title in Google Analytics 4?
The title tags of my pages have this format:
The title — The site name
I want Google Analytics 4 to trim the — The site name part at the end. Is there a way to do so? It used to work in UA though:
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Why is there another _ga_ cookie in my site with unknown ID?
I open my site, open devtool and navigate to the Cookies section in Storage tab. I see that there are three _ga_ cookies: _ga, _ga_XXXXXX1 and _ga_XXXXXX2. XXXXXX1 is indeed my measurement ID, but I ...
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Does Google Ads show conversion data if the linked GA4 "App and web metrics" setting is off?
A PPC marketer is saying that since the site I am responsible for updated to GA4 from UA, they are not seeing any conversion data.
The site is Magento 2.4.5, which has a core module to add Google Ads' ...
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GA4 is blocking main thread in page load
Just 2 weeks ago our page load speeds started getting crushed with no changes on our end.
We tested our different tags, and definitely it is our GA4 tag.
We tried adding a Timer onto the tag, but it ...
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See source/medium of purchases in GA4 realtime-report
in the GA4 realtime-report you have a box with "Users by first users source / medium" and you have a box with "Conversion by event name". What I need would be a real-time box which ...
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Why are all my conversions in GA4 marked as "direct"?
I run a small webapp. The app is hosted on app.mydomain.com and my 'main' website is just on mydomain.com. On my main website I installed Google Tag Manager and installed/linked a GA4 property. On the ...
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Looker Studio: Tracking users from multiple sources over multiple months
I am working on building out reporting in Looker Studio for our website. I would like to have a trendline chart with the top source/mediums tracked over multiple months (ideally with a "...
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GTM datalayer.push not sending GA event because of redirection code in JavaScript only in Firefox
I have come across this peculiar behaviour of GTM's dayaLayer code. The below issue happens to me only in firefox browser and all other browsers work fine - (Edge and Chrome).
I have a dataLayer.push ...
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GA4 Reports not grouping events properly?
For this one particular event, I'm seeing the same events not being grouped together and I can't figure out why. This screenshot is from the standard GA4 event page filtered by the particular event ...
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GA4 - "Pages and screens" report - fewer views than users?
In the "Pages and screens" report of a site I'm looking, a bunch of pages have view counts much lower than users:
Is there any reasonable explanation for this, or might there be an actual ...
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How to get the GA4 Explore reports full width?
How do we get the Explore reports to be full width for our data? This following is the best I can do at full width. But yet there is all that white space in the far right that is being used for ...
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Domain change - So how to update google properties?
Recently one of my clients changes the domain name and I am facing some issues with changing the new domain in Google tools like search console and Analytics GA4 and AdWords.
Option 1 : Go ahead and ...
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Creating a "Page to Source" report in GA4
In Google Analytics, I had several custom reports I loved in the previous version, but the one I'm missing the most is one where I was able to click the link (or title, it doesn't matter which) to a ...
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Engagement Rate - Total higher than any individual page in the filter
This is a question I couldn't quite explain to my boss' satisfaction.
I've made a data studio with GA4 that filters for certain blog pages. I used an individual metric to show the overall engagement ...
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Google Analytics G4 Real Time Trend Lag
Now that Google Analytics UA is almost dead (my main site stopped tracking today), I was wondering if it was possible to bring some of the important UA features to G4 by the way of configuration ...
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GA4 Unassigned Traffic
I have a client using GA4 that is experiencing some anomalies in how GA4 is assigning Session default channel groups.
A large portion of their revenue (about 60%) is falling into the Unassigned ...
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GA4 - Why do event count and the corresponding conversions not match?
We have a custom event called "consumer_action_booking" which we're passing to GA4. I marked that event as a conversion event:
However, when I look at the event count for that actual event, ...
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Someone used my Google Analytics Tracking ID, how do I remove that traffic in GA4?
Someone used my Google Analytics Tracking ID, how do I remove that traffic in GA4?
This seemed possible with UA properties, but can't find how to do this in GA4 properties.
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How can multiple people in my organization access multiple client Google Analytics accounts?
I work at a web development and marketing agency. We need to access multiple client GA accounts.
Currently we handle this by having a [email protected] account, which people at our organization log ...
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How to automate the identification of which organic keywords are generating leads?
It seems this answer is a solution to identifying which organic keywords are generating leads:
Go to Search Traffic > Search Analytics, drill down into a specific
keyword, then click the "...
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Google Analytics alternatives? [closed]
Can you suggest any Google Analytics alternatives? What are you using on your sites?
UA analytics now changed to GA4, so looking alternative...
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Tracking form submission via a thank you page, only if it contains specific text
I have two forms on a website. Both redirect to a "thank you" page once they are submitted. The problem is that the thank-you page is also shown if the form contains errors, which means that ...
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GA4 showing far fewer page views (50% or less) than UA
I have configured Google Analytics (Universal Analytics) and GA4 across all of the pages on my website.
I have verified that Google Tag exists on each of the pages using Google Tag Assistant.
If I see ...
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Strange tags in Google Tag Manager?
My Measurement ID is G-XH******. I see a few strange things in my Google Tag Manager account:
1. In GTM there is one tag starting with GT-
2. In Tag Assistance there is another one starting with G-
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Adding GA4 using tag manager causes performance issue
I have added GA4 (google analytics 4) using GTM (google tag manager) and the google PageSpeedInsight complains about it and I get failed in Core Web Vitals Assessment:
And here is how it complains:
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Migrating UA Views approach to the new Google Analytics (GA4)
I'm trying to figure out the optimal setup for the client's use case with GA4.
Some background:
It's an online media brand with multiple sub-sites (subdomains), with one sub-site having multiple ...
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How To Set Up GA4 UTM Tags & Test Them With Thresholding Issues?
So I recently downgraded to GA4 from UA. I am trying to set up utm parameters again. They seem easy enough, but the problem is testing them.
When I go to test them, my data is thresholded because ...
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Google Analytics: How to find URLs of paths that are (not set)?
We're getting a lot hits that have page title set to (not set). For example, on "Pages and Screens: Page Title and Screen Class", we get:
We don't know where they're stemming from. How can ...
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how to get not indexed pages using google search console api
I am looking for a way to get 404 pages of mywebsite using google api search console
I have tried this way but it returned 0 rows despite there are 404 pages in my website
$service = new ...
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What will happen to my GA3 data after 1st July 2023?
Ive got 10 years of data saved in Google Analytics 3.
On 1st July 2023, GA3 is being discontinued and GA4 is its replacement, buts its not 1:1, none of the data transfers from 3 -> 4
Ive setup GA4 ...
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How to view organic traffic landing pages in GA4 ? Used to be able to find in GA3
I was using UTM tracking to track traffic from Google Local / Google My Business (GMB) to a website.
More info can be found on this here, but in short, you place a UTM tag at the end of your website's ...
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Differences in Affiliation Data GA4 Vs UA
I have noticed a significant difference in the affiliation data for almost all of my clients when it comes to reporting Affiliation data (users/sessions/revenue).
Here is an example:
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Google Analytics 4 reports less visits
I'm comparing the traffic between Universal Analytics (the old one) and Google Analytics 4 (the new one). As I can see, according to UA, today 134 users visited my website. However, according to GA4, ...
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Does the Referrer-Policy header affect Google Analytics tracking?
I'd like to use the Referrer-Policy header in my site.
Depending on which value I use, it will send more, less or no referrer information to a link's target site.
If I use a restrictive value, e.g. ...
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Configure GA4 for a website with multiple locations
I am working on an eCommerce project for a company that will have a single site/domain but users are able to select their active location while shopping. This is a pretty common pattern for many sites ...
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