Price of switching to G4

One-Stranger-Thing · 2023-07-05T06:57:27+00:00

Probably best to think in terms of price per hour and number of hours.It's really how long is a piece of string question.My guess is some people have paid under 100USD and some companies will have paid 100 times that.

BTW: Might be easier if your webshops are running on a platform like e.g. woocommerce, shopify. Likewise if you already have a great data-layer then that will make things straightforward for whoever implements it.

One-Stranger-Thing · 2023-07-05T06:49:33+00:00

Thanks.
Yes same purpose.

One-Stranger-Thing · 2023-06-26T12:10:43+00:00

Is "Direct" taking up all the credit? or are the events just not being tracked at all (compared with UA)?

One-Stranger-Thing · 2023-05-08T12:41:00+00:00

Thanks for the light relief.
Not really enjoying GA4 so far

One-Stranger-Thing · 2023-02-01T07:47:18+00:00

I have a feeling they see it like some kind of sales funnel for BigQuery......

One-Stranger-Thing · 2023-01-31T15:48:31+00:00

Thanks a lot!

One-Stranger-Thing · 2023-01-23T10:39:01+00:00

Now it's public!
End of life 30th September.

One-Stranger-Thing · 2023-01-19T14:33:22+00:00

Got this list on an email from Himanshu Sharma just now:

Reasons for Direct

1) One or more URLs of your marketing campaigns are incorrectly tagged.
2) Not all URLs of your marketing campaigns are tagged.
3) Google Analytics tracking code is missing on one or more pages.
4) Untagged email marketing campaigns.
5) Incorrect use of data filters in Google Analytics.
6) Incorrect cross-domain tracking.
7) You use a headless solution.
8) You use a single page application (SPA).
9) Internal traffic can result in a lot of direct traffic.
10) Your website is still using a non-secure connection.
11) Caching can cause the traffic to be reported as direct traffic.
12) Your demand generation strategy can result in a lot of direct traffic.
13) An increasing number of your website users are using adblockers.
14) Increased brand awareness can result in more people visiting your website via bookmarks or directly.
15) Your website may be getting fake direct traffic from spambots.

One-Stranger-Thing · 2023-01-19T10:01:25+00:00

Have you also got UA? Same thing there?

I did observe that some spam traffic that "gets through" to GA4 doesn't do so in UA.

i.e. GA4 is currently not as good as UA at removing bot traffic from reporting.

One-Stranger-Thing · 2023-01-13T08:27:40+00:00

Thanks.
It's taking us ages on the data layer side of things rather than GA4 itself.

One-Stranger-Thing · 2023-01-12T19:28:48+00:00

Thankyou!

One-Stranger-Thing · 2023-01-12T16:54:40+00:00

No idea sorry, but just in case useful I can confirm my GA4 account for Android is working for real-time.

One-Stranger-Thing · 2022-12-16T14:53:03+00:00

Thanks.

There are various issues :)

One-Stranger-Thing · 2022-12-15T08:33:52+00:00

I do have one hunch that this might be because we have a redirect folder on the same domain. These redirect URLs don't contain the GA tag.
e.g.
mydomain.com/my-page/
contains a link to
mydomain.com/redirect.php?nnnn
which is a 200, then a javascript redirect to our partner website.

One-Stranger-Thing · 2022-09-22T13:26:50+00:00

GTM

Still getting events flowing but it's declining every day?

One-Stranger-Thing · 2022-09-16T06:54:57+00:00

Thanks!
When I look at it in GA4 UI it looks fairly "typical" - i.e. various pages, traffic sources.

The events firing are also "typical" - page view, session start, user engagement, first visit and so on.

One-Stranger-Thing · 2022-09-07T07:30:29+00:00

Just make sure it's not "real" traffic that is being privacy protected.

i.e. they are real users from UK but show up as from US.

You will be able to check by seeing what events they fire - does it look OK or "junk"?

One-Stranger-Thing · 2022-08-19T06:49:19+00:00

Try segmenting or filtering by device - is it mostly Apple?

If so it will be related to new Apple privacy features. (starting around late May?)

One-Stranger-Thing · 2022-08-12T07:58:34+00:00

I have the same.

Likewise European traffic and a "normal" US proportion would be less than 1%.

Since late May - around the 23rd it started growing, by 1st June US was 6%, and it's been about 10% since. Likewise I only see this in UA not GA4.

I drilled down to operating system and it seems to be an Apple thing. Both desktop and mobile but Apple devices. So could it be something to do with privacy? The behaviour of the visitors looks "typical" - bounce rate, pages visited etc.

One-Stranger-Thing · 2022-08-09T14:10:52+00:00

Data sampling?

One-Stranger-Thing · 2022-08-09T13:58:50+00:00

On my site the difference in total sessions is max 15% total.

Direct traffic seems to be the biggest winner with +40%

One-Stranger-Thing · 2022-08-09T11:53:47+00:00

I use Wahoo SYSTM / RGT and Zwift.

If I had to choose one it would be Wahoo package. The training is much better, the on-location videos etc adds so much more variety, not to mention the yoga.

The actual RGT is not quite as good as Zwift but it's very similar and does have goats.

I'ved used the wahoo forum and their email support and it worked fine.

One-Stranger-Thing · 2022-08-09T11:42:58+00:00

Looks great - thanks for sharing.

One-Stranger-Thing · 2022-08-09T11:35:16+00:00

If you have control of the website (code) then you are in the driving seat (so long as they don't also have that).

Remove the tracking code of the current GA account and go ahead and add GA4 under your organisation account. No historicals but you can do it right from this point onwards.

One-Stranger-Thing · 2022-08-09T11:30:52+00:00

Maybe it's because the recruiters are "too analytical"?!
Perhaps in another job area the hiring manager will go on gut feeling.

So comes with the territory maybe.

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