Hi! I'm trying to figure out in GA4 how to see how many people who landed on a particular page then went and either signed up for our service or submitted a demo request. Both actions have pages that you end up on post signup.

I can see how many people have visited a particular landing page, but can't figure out how to see how many of those people went on to sign up.

Thanks!

Hi! I'm trying to figure out in GA4 how to see how many people who landed on a particular page then went and either signed up for our service or submitted a demo request. Both actions have pages that you end up on post signup.

I can see how many people have visited a particular landing page, but can't figure out how to see how many of those people went on to sign up.

Thanks!

I would like to exclude existing active customers from all of our google campaigns. I understand there is an option to import data in GA4 and then I could create an audience based on the data imported and create an exclusion for that audience in google ads? Not sure - might be wrong on that!

But my main is issue is: how do I figure out what info GA4 needs for it to successfully exclude those users? I can upload their first name, last name, email address - but I'm not sure GA4 will recognize that?

Any guidance would be awesome!

I've been using GAU and now GA4 for some time, but never had to deal with eCommerce. How in the heck can I find out what Campaign resulted in a purchase? For the life of me I cannot seem to connect these data in the GA4 UI or in Looker Studio. The goal is to show what utm Campaigns drove a purchase. Actually, to be fully honest, its not even a purchase. I work for a NFP and they are donations.

Thank you for pointing out what I am obviously missing.

In a nutshell, GA4 is recording a lot of button clicks on my company's service line pages. We have a button in the global header of our website. My question is, if a user clicks on this button when they are on a certain service page, is the button click attributed to that service page even though the click was technically in the global header? If so, that would be skewing our specific page data. I've been researching this quite a bit and been unable to find a clear answer, so appreciate any insight :).

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does direct mean ppl are typing the full url in search bar. if they visit website via backlink from another directory, would that be a referral?

what are typical engagement rates to be considered "good"?

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For some reason I have an average view time of only 1 second on my website. 0 seconds average on paid social media and 3 seconds on paid search results.

More details: my websites has a landing page and a product page. I basically sell a toy. I removed the price completly from the first page to make sure thats not the factor pushing people away. From 2k views on my main page I only have 10 views on my product page.

Are all my views bots? I have no reason to explain this. And its very weird because its not a single source. I have multiple: tiktok, facebook, google ads, organic

Moving from UA to GA4, I’ve seen a huge decrease in revenue attributed to affiliates with last click tracking in GA4. Tracking in UA, 50% of our orders tracked through awin match correctly to an order attributed to affiliates, however in GA4 this drops to less than 25% with a big shift in orders being tracked as paid search instead of affiliates.

Hope that makes sense… has anyone else experienced this or know what might be causing it? Nothing has changed to our tracking. We have consent mode enabled.

For a specific period, there are 11 form_submit events in GA4 on the registration form on my website.

But for the same period I have 62 new registered users on my website.

I understand there can be some discrepancy due to ad blockers, users not giving consent or bot traffic (although I use Cloudflare Captcha) but 82% discrepancy seems like a lot.

So my question is if it's expected percentage of missing data or there is something than can be fixed on my website or in Google Analytics 4 to get more data?

Hi,

My Google adsense is showing proper revenue report but the report in my GA4 total ad revenue is extremely low..
(This is for Ads for search)

Can anyone please help me how to configure this?

We have set up cross-domain tracking for two of our websites by creating another GA4 property. We added the Gtag to the containers of the two websites. We are getting the traffic from both the domains to Cross-domain tracking property but not all the events. Can anyone help us get all the events from both containers to a new property?

This is my first post ever, so I apologize in advance if I'm not following the proper etiquette. I am struggling with creating a custom report in GA4 that will show me at a glance, in one place, how my client's paid Facebook and Google ad campaigns are performing.

The Facebook ad is a call ad-on that directs users to my client's landing page first and when the user clicks the screen, the business phone number pops up. The goal is to get users to either call and book their services or fill out the lead form on the website for more info or to schedule services.

We're also running pmax campaigns on Google that direct users to the same landing page and the goal is the same as the Facebook ad.

We are tracking these key events in GA4 as conversions: form_submit and phone_number_clicks. As a secondary dimension, it would be helpful to see which zip codes or cities are getting the highest traffic and conversions. Ultimately, I need to show the return on ad spend for each tactic since they want to evaluate which one is the best for their business and put more money into that tactic. I know there is a way to pull in the ad spend from Google ads, but I'm not sure if I can also pull in the FB ad spend.

Any help with instructions on creating the ideal report would be greatly appreciated! I am pulling my hair out trying to figure this out alone and I keep running into dead ends. Thank you in advance!

I Set Up an new GA4 Tag in Google Tag Manager with an Event.

In GA4 I See the Event in the Debug View but Not under Events or Key Events.

Therefore I can Not connect it to Google ads.

Do you know why I can only See it in Debug View?

Thank you!

Is there a way to filter custom events in GA4 by event name for reporting purposes? We did this in universal analytics and am trying to replicate it now in GA4, but everytime I build the report in the Reporting section and I try to filter, it will only let me filter by Even Label and Event category. We have custom event names for certain actions taken on our website and I would like to have an automated report for this.

Is it possible?

Thanks!

1. Is there any way to disable the consent mode and GA works like before? I have more than 70% discrepancy
2. If not, how to apply a cookie consent method that works with GA and is also simple to apply/integrate (does GA have coockie consent question enable option)?

Hey everyone,

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We're getting a lot of user engagement with a duration of 0s. I know GA4 is supposed to automatically filter out bots and crawlers, but could this still be bots, or is something else going on? Has anyone else seen this kind of data? Any insights would be really helpful!

Hi all,

We've noticed our page views are really high, even though our tracking setup looks correct (no multiple firings). What could be causing this? How can we improve the accuracy of our page view measurements? Any tips or similar experiences would be helpful!

Hey everyone,

We sell products online and also deal with customers over the phone. Right now, our Google Analytics 4 engaged session time is set to the default 10 seconds, which seems too short?

What session time works best for you, especially if you also handle offline stuff like calls? Need some advice!

I've been told that I need GTM container ID in order to collect data from our subdomain. I have a GA4 configuration tag. Currently our website. com is sending data to GA4 but our e-commerce pages website.ecommerce. com are not. When I open Google Tag Manager I am able to see the tag and launch tag assistant and generally manage things under Admin. However, I don't have a container for the tag. I've created a container but cannot for the life of me figure out how to add this tag to the new container. Ideally, any tags will be in the same container with one container ID. Anyone know how to put an existing tag into a new container?
Our web designer and our subdomain provider have been unable to help. Perhaps I'm doing an awful job articulating the issue? Be gentle with me. I am an event planner and hospitality professional who is suddenly wearing a marketing hat. I appreciate any suggestions!

I'm currently analyzing the results of a week long sales campaign in GA4. We have an external system to measure purchases that we trust more than GA4, so I'll be using that for actual revenue and purchase metrics. However, it would be nice while I analyze traffic sources and landing pages to see how many people viewed an item.

My issue that I've been dealing with for hours:
I set up a traffic acquisition report, and select "session source/medium" as my dimension with my only two metrics being "total users" and "sessions." Pretty standard stuff. But as soon as I add "items viewed" as a metric, the numbers for "total users" and "sessions" completely changes by thousands. This is making it super difficult to build my report as I'm really trying to be as accurate as possible as the report will have a lot of eyes on it, but how am I supposed to ensure the validity of the data when it changes so often? What report am I supposed to trust to give me the most accurate metrics?

Can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance.

I've never had this problem before and im very confused.

Im running Google display, youtube ads, and paid social ads for a client. For the google based campaigns I have always run with auto tagging on and linked to the GA4 account.

I noticed "paid search" showing up in the channel grouping, tried to break it down by campaign, 'not set', looked into it and it has the same pattern of users over time as the clicks from my display campaign.

But the thing is theres already a display channel with data.

THen i broke the display campaign down by ad type and saw "video ads" which we are not running.

All the while, theres a paid video channel which i assumed was the youtube ads? Likely my mistake.

How can this be happening when i have google ads with ga4 linked? and how to fix? i am stumped.

Would using character encoded ampersands (&) instead of regular character (&) in UTM URLs be captured correctly by GA4? I would imagine so but I’m seeing behaviour that makes me think it’s causing an issue. Thanks in advance!

Edit for more info: in reports I see “session source / medium” with the source UTM captured correctly, but almost all the medium values are showing as (not set) except for a very few.

Howdy! I purchased a business that was already set up with a less than ideal website company. This is the kind of company that says they own your website and will remove it if you stop paying them their monthly fee. They preyed on the older previous owners lack of knowledge. I am already connecting with other providers to move away from them.

The problem is the new providers want to see my historic analytics data. The current company only gave me access from the date I sent them a script forward, not the legacy data. My point of contact knows next to nothing about google analytics and keeps submitting “support tickets” when I press for full access to all the data.

I feel like they are giving me the run around and being unethical. What can I do to get access if they won’t cooperate?

Oh, boy. It’s been a crazy last 24 hours. I’ve been with my job for almost 3 months, and they’ve never had an in-house marketing position. Thus, there’s been a lot of clean up, new implementations, and trial and error.

We use a hosting site and trust me when I say they’re crooked. I have pages of notes on my findings and problems with them since I’ve started.

Well, we’re about to start running Meta ads and I want to properly be able to track conversions, so I log onto our Google analytics account and immediately see years’ worth of another company’s data.

Just to confirm, I go to their website and see they’re powered by our hosting site as well.

I feel like this is a BIG problem.

I called them, simply explained what was going on, and they were confused how this could happen… I had to explain that somehow our Google tag was put on the other site’s back end.

They removed it, put the code on ours, and I requested a data deletion from Google. It looks like it was approved but there’s still a bunch of data.

I had never been on Google analytics until yesterday. Is there another way to delete all of this company’s data? Or will I have to create another Google account? I really don’t want to do that since it’s connected to Ads, Search Console, etc. Is this something that would involve legal action?

I see a few posts here with a few suggestions but has anyone found a good step by step guide for exporting GA data to something that will make the data useful later? I’m thinking of using big query. I’m also thinking about building a huge report in data studio and at least going month by month and downloading a visual report of our historical data. It makes me really mad that we trusted Google to house this data and now they’re just going to delete it.

Is it OK to upload to my LinkedIn profile the screen shots of my campaign results during my time with my previous employer as long as I blur out the brand name? Thanks!

Hey everyone,
I have a question regarding my cookies and GA4.

I just figured that when I inspect my website before I give cookie approval, 3 google cookies are set. I am using a CMS called IONOS (a website builder) and the included consent banner app from usercentrics.

FB pixel is set correct after the consent but the google pixels are kind of set on default.

Here are the pixels that are set before approval:
_ga
_ga_X6CR.....
_gcl_au

Someone has an idea of why these pixels are set without any consent?