Questions tagged [universal-analytics]
Universal Analytics was the default version of the Google Analytics code for properties created between 2012 and 2020.
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How to extract Universal Analytics data from earlier than 2023? [closed]
I have been testing online products to extract historical Universal Analytics (UA) data and I'm finding that the two that I have tried have limitations. I am wondering if there is any tool (free ...
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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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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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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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Google Analytics (Universal): Regex Filter on report for multiple pages
I'm setting up an Analytics report and want the data from two pages combined. I don't want the data from any of the subpages or parent pages included. Say that the pages are Trier Blog and ...
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The same google tag triggers for different tags and websites
I have a one Google tags container for 2 websites: web1 and web2. I have one simple trigger created -> "Some Link Clicks" -> click class to check if someone clicks email addresses. ...
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Google Tag Manager events not registering in GA4 but do in GA
I have several tags/triggers in Google Tag Manager( both script/non script versions - https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js and https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html) that clearly show up in the ...
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Google Analytics UA: Zero Hits but multiple users
within my Google Anayltics UA-driven site I have that overview on data with zero hits on all pages but multiple users/new users/time on page - see screenshot. Why is that and how can I fix it?
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On Google Sheets Google Analytics Add on, how can I filter by page?
I am using the Google Analytics Add on in Google Sheets. I need to add a filter that enables my report to only show URLs containing the word "blog" The blog pages are not in a directory, e.g....
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How to see what page along conversion funnel results in the most conversions in Universal Analytics
I have a conversion configured for booking an appointment for a store. This works fine, however I am trying to break down which store page results in each conversion. Home > Store A > Book ...
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Traffic source issue in GA4 with subfolders
We have established 2 properties from 2 different accounts in ga4 for tracking our website general English root domain example.com in the first property and tracking its subfolder example.com/es/ in ...
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2 _ga cookies are generated at the same time
I think Google Analytics sees more visitors than it actually is because 2 _ga cookies are generated at the same time and the user ID are duplicated because of this on my opinion. GA is installed via ...
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Three identical views = Different numbers
For my website, which I'm tracking with Google Tag Manager and Universal Analytics, I have three identical views (i.e. I simply copied the original view). For the same time-frame (in this case ...
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Get Instagram referral profile/user's name in Google Universal Analytics or GA4
Is there a way to find out which exactly Instagram user was a referral for session/conversion in Google Analytics (preferably Google Analytics 4)? I've have tried to explore all reports but couldn't ...
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10 seconds on site within Google Analytics versus Tag manager Timer
We use Google Analytics to measure traffic coming from our marketing campaigns. For one of our customers we are currently running vastly different campaigns on the same site. To easily split the ...
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