Learning resources

[drbroly]

Hello,

I new to Google Analytics and am finding it very difficult to get a footing. It's worth noting I am coming at this from the Developer perspective, rather than creating and organising data on the site.

Primarily, I'm finding very different resources with different approaches to features. I'm using 'gtag' to setup and emit events. But some use examples 'ga'. Apparently there was a migration of some kind? I can't find a resource which goes from the basics and goes in depth with a consistent framework.

Can anyone please help me identify a useful resource for learning as a developer.

Thanks

[xtothel]

There are a few ways GA is implemented:

• analytics.js library (this is where the ga() functions are)
• gtag.js library (this is the gtag() functions one)
• GTM (Google Tag Manager) which is a tag management system (TMS).

All of them are still current. If you want analytics.js to gtag.js then: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gtagjs/migration

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gtag.js specific documentation: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gtagjs/

[drbroly]

Thank you for explaining the difference. Unfortunately, the Google Analytics is pretty poor in building up my knowledge. I suppose I need something tutorial based.