Questions tagged [google-analytics-4]
Google Analytics 4 is the replacement for Universal Analytics. Use for questions specific to this version or in transitioning from UA. Use with the [google-analytics] tag
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/wp pages showing in Google Analytics
Suddenly if I go to Engagement in GA4 and look at the pages being viewed, I am getting all kinds of backend files. I have scanned with Wordfence and everything is good. I have never had this in any ...
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GTM: Trigger fired, but Event failed
I am trying to setup a GA4 Event to track external links to a specific website/page.
I have setup the trigger based on the ClickUrl of the specific website page the visitors will be clicking to.
The ...
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How to prevent google analytics from injecting cross-domain measurement query parameters in a subdomain url
I have this following very specific use case that I cannot find any documentation for. I don't know if it's even possible, but the objective is to prevent GA4 to append its own parameters in the url ...
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GA4 doesn't providing the number of click on specific button
Few days ago I have added gTag manager to one of my project and added a code to track number of click that button received. So I have 4 categories button and each named as alpha, beta, gamma, theta.
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Restore GA4 session after return from 3rd party web page
How can I glue together two episodes into the one GA4 session starting from add_to_cart and ending with purchase to track as one user journey?
Stages now:
Visitor is on the website with GTM(+GA4) ...
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Missing page views in Realtime report
In our site the page_view events displayed in realtime report have completely collapsed whereas the user_engagement events remain high.
E.g. currently 2430 user_engagement events are shown and only 6 ...
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Facing issues with UTM parameters in GA4
We are facing issues with GA4 analytics. We are running multiple banner ads on various websites, so to track them we are using UTM parameters, but GA4 is not not tracking any of these parameters.
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Do Google Analytics 4 Refund Events affect the total revenue, when there is no corresponding transaction?
After fumbling around for a while I have concluded, that to refund a transaction in Google Analytics 4, it is enough to use the same transactionId as the original transaction that is being refunded (...
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Postpone logging page_view
We're workinig with a site where pages fetch their content via Ajax, after the HTML document has loaded. As a consequence, where GA4 fires its page_view the page title tag (which I think is where the ...
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Google Analytics Report with Multiple Link URL Filters
How can I create a Google Analytics 4 Exploration where I can track multiple Link URLs?
Currently, I can only track one Link URL:
But if I try adding another Link URL, I get:
Basically, I'm looking ...
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Google Ads Conversion Actions - Do you need both a GA4 Purchase event and GoogleAds Conversion event measuring the same thing?
I've just been trying to get my head around the difference between GA4 "Purchase" events and Google Ads "Conversion" events.
The Google Ads set-up I am looking at has the GA4 ...
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Google Analytics is not receiving Consent Signals (aparrently)
I have recently integrated the new(ish) Google Consent Mode into our Website and into Google Tag Manager. Using Google Tag Manager in preview mode, I can verify that the Consent is both updated ...
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Why does toggling conversion for an event seem to impact the underlying event volume in GA4?
Our company is in the process of transitioning from UA to GA4. We use GTM to handle all of our events, and we're checking event volume side-by-side to be sure we can smoothly transition our reporting ...
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Configuring GA4 to Display Aggregate Traffic on Filtered Pages, Similar to Universal Analytics
In GA4, I want to have a graph showing the total visits on certain pages that I have filtered.
With Universal Analytics, when you went to 'Behavior', 'Site Content', 'All Pages', it was possible to ...
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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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Google Tag Assistant listed as traffic source
In GA4 I keep getting traffic whose source is identified as "tagassistant.google.com". However, I'm not in the tag manager in my browsers and the traffic duration is longer than google just ...
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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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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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Does Google Analytics 4 use value from `document.title`?
According to [GA4] Page title - Analytics Help, it only uses title tag. However, if it's the only source for GA4 to get page title, then there wouldn't be a problem with having duplicate entries, one ...
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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 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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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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Google Analytics 4: pageviews by month and year
In a report:
With some difficulty (it was much simpler with Universal Analytics) I was able to select two Dimensions: Month and Year and one Metric: Views.
However the chart does not seem to be ...
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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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How to set up event parameters/custom dimensions in Google Tag Manager start up JavaScript for Google Analytics 4
I have been using Universal Analytics previously and now switched to Google Analytics 4.
In UA, along with the page view we used to set and send a custom variable called userName. This variable helps ...
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Why isn't GA4 debug viewer showing most events when it was working this morning
Hi I've been using GA4 debug viewer most of today and everything has been fine until I went away from my computer for about 2 hours, came back without changing anything in my GTM setup up and for some ...
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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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GA4 says Not Found under Reports>Pages and Screens
I did a site audit and also added "page and screen titles" as an attribute in the report. There aren't any 404 pages. Even conversion events are coming from this page.
While checking this ...
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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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GA4 cross domain measurement with client_id and session_id
According to https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/10071811?hl=en#zippy=%2Cmanual-setup, I can use code similar to the following to set the client_id and session_id values for Google Analytics:
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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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GA4 does not show earlier statistics in custom report
Hej,
It seems that even after changing data retention to 14 months, Google's GA4 does not show 14 months back and does not allow me to change dates on a custom report. Does anyone know what might be ...
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Why do GA4 Total reported sessions not equal the sum of sessions by dimension
For one of my larger clients, we're seeing a discrepancy between the sessions (and users) reported for each traffic source, and the total sessions reported in GA4. This occurs whether we are using ...
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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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Does AdSense out-of-the-box GDPR message work with GA4?
AdSense offers a simple solution for GDPR-compliant messages for personalized ads (https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/10961068).
If I enable this popup, do I need an additional popup ...
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Why is my GA4 Engagement Rate empty/zero when adding an event/parameter to the rows/columns/audiences of a report
So the situation is I'm using custom events and parameters in my GA4 (new Google Analytics) setup. Specifically, I add a parameter for my A/B tests that goes on all events including the default ones ...
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Counts Change When Comparisons Added?
The shortest way to explain my issue is this -
In GA4, under the Conversions report, if I add a second comparison that is identical to my first comparison but additionally specifies a page path, the ...
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How can I see how many transactions each search query came from Google organic search?
I have a website which has GA4, GSC, and BigQuery connected to it.
The site is ranking for a bunch of different search queries in Google. I want to know which queries bring me transactions. That is, ...
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How to Exclude Duck Duck Go Bot Traffic From Google analytics 4
I have been trying to create a filter for excluding Duckduck Go and Baidu search engine Bot Traffic from Google Analytics 4 for one of my websites. I am unable to create a filter for it. Internal &...
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GA4 Matrix style Exploration
I want to track when users complete and drop out of completing a multi-page form. I'm capturing the "step" number as the user accesses each step/page in the form via G Tag Manager. I can ...
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Paid Social Traffic Channel Is Not Showing on GA4
I am getting trouble in GA4 after migration. I have been running Facebook ads, and Google ads for my website but Paid social traffic is not showing on GA4. GA4 is recording the overwhelming majority ...
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GA4 Landing Page Report only shows Not Set
In Google Analytics 4, my Reports>Engagement>Landing Page shows only one row which says "Not Set". I realize that if an event fires before the Page View that might trigger this for ...
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Google Analytics - "gtm-msr" shows up as a top page/screen in GA4
Ok Google Analytics peeps - need help to remove something that shows up GA4 but not Universal Analytics and inflates our page/screens data and number.
When I view Page and screens in Google Analytics ...
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Not registering engagement time in GA4
We've set up a new website, based on Wordpress. We use Google Tag Manager (as on the old website) and new for this website, Google Analytics 4. We're getting a lot of data as you'd expect, but we're ...
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When cookie consent for Google Analytics 4 in Google Sites will be enhanced to comply with European Union legislation?
In the Settings of a Google Site, it's possible to enable analytics and add Google Analytics 4 using a measurement ID. My concern is about the cookie consent dialog. For people accessing from the ...
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GA4 data streams and subdomains
So i have this current setup with GA (universal analytics) where a subscription platform runs on a subdomain therefor we use a different view and different tracking code.
But with GA 4, i was ...
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