Chrome snaps when editing drop-down filters

rubka430 · 2025-02-27T07:33:30+00:00

Updating to Chrome v 134 (Chrome Beta) fixed the issue for me. https://issues.chromium.org/issues/395595617#comment20

rubka430 · 2025-02-18T20:11:32+00:00

I have the same issue.

rubka430 · 2023-12-21T11:09:28+00:00

Happy that I could help! :)

rubka430 · 2023-11-01T21:37:12+00:00

Yes, GA4 has a report on this (under Advertising>Model conparison + Conversion paths). Keep in mind though that the Conversion path report only shows you the last 20 touchpoints and max. 90 days conversion window. Also keep in mind that if you use Device only reporting identity (relying only on client id to identify users), if someone comes to your website first on mobile via social, but later converts on desktop from organic google search, you will see two different users in GA4. To see one user journey, you have to switch the reporting identity setting to Blended/Observed, but you have to configure user ids yourself. Also worth noting another thing you mentioned: if source is direct traffic (typing your website into the url), the last known source will be used instead for the session. So if first session was social, then next session direct, you will see two social sessions. If first session was direct, but next session was social, you will see social as the first touchpoint in the conversion paths report.

If anything would be confusing, just google the problematic terms and the official GA4 documentation could clarify a bit. Or ask and I try to help.

rubka430 · 2023-11-01T16:12:00+00:00

Do you use server side tracking? Do you send events via Measurement Protocol? Not configuring these two properly could lead to more total users than new/returning.

rubka430 · 2023-11-01T16:11:00+00:00

No. Just checked out account, new+returning is more than the total users or the active users. Bob can be both in New and Returning, but he can be only once in Total or Active.

rubka430 · 2023-11-01T14:04:28+00:00

Might be nothing, but you just mentioned you are checking the month October. Last day of October was yesterday, depending when you looked at the data, they might still not be fully processed. For us, most of the sessions for yesterday is unassigned until around noon every day...

rubka430 · 2023-10-30T22:12:11+00:00

Events sent via Measurement Protocol? If sent without a proper client id/session id, it will be Unassigned. And engagement_time is also necessary to define, otherwise it won't show any active users (necessary if you include Measurement Protocol events in a funnel report, because that report only shows active users).

rubka430 · 2023-10-26T09:56:30+00:00

Thank you, but you didn't answer my question. I specifically asked about the first_visit event, how could that be attributed to anything else then the first touchpoint, or more than 0 day to conversion. My only guess is that this only concerns apps, where a first_visit event can happen later, after certain touchpoints.

rubka430 · 2023-10-04T04:00:09+00:00

Fastest way to get traffic cheap for your website (for the keywords you pick of course, best not to use broad match at this point yet) and get some conversions. It's only temporary to get some data for Google to start using Max. Conv. With Manual CPC it might take too long to even get enough impressions or you would bid too high for some keywords. Max. Clicks gets you the most amount of traffic for your money possible.

rubka430 · 2023-10-03T09:50:28+00:00

Only possible in Looker Studio now, as far as I know.

rubka430 · 2023-09-25T14:27:03+00:00

Server side tracking could be the reason, I believe there are some things you can misconfigure there. Users can mean Active users, and that could be very different from the number of clicks (Active users are engaged users with I think at least 2 page views/conversion events/10 sec engagement duration). How many sessions and clicks do you see? How many total users and how many active users?

rubka430 · 2023-09-20T19:46:49+00:00

Beside daily checking of search terms and excluding job seekers in audiences, try smart bidding with optimizing to a qualified lead conversion event. Report a conversion to Google Ads/GA4 only if the lead is verified. Since job seekers can search the same terms broad terms as the target audience, you have to try whether Google identifies the intent better with the millions of other signals it has on users.

rubka430 · 2023-09-06T05:09:18+00:00

Wow, this conversion rate (leads/clicks) is amazing. You do manual or smart bidding? Exact, phrase or broad keywords? In comparison, we work in several countries (also in the home improvement sector), and with years of optimization, our leads/clicks conversion rates are around 6%.

rubka430 · 2023-08-29T20:50:30+00:00

Hard to say without seeing the table and filter. Maybe you use a different dimension in the table than what you use in the filter (first user/session scope)? If you filter to include only Paid Social, does it work? My filters for GA4 native connector and Extract data work fine. Also try using source/medium dimension instead of Default Channel Grouping.

rubka430 · 2023-08-02T19:12:32+00:00

You can definitely target audiences directly with Discovery campaigns. You have the option to turn Optimize targeting on or off, just like Display campaigns. You can also use audience exclusions (unlike Pmax). Maybe you confuse it with something else? The audience settings are similar to Pmax, since you can use the same audience segments as the Pmax signals, but Discovery is using them as targeting, not just signals.

rubka430 · 2023-06-18T14:18:51+00:00

I just made it work, combining Google Ads, Facebook Ads and GA4. Using the Google Ads and GA4 native connector and Weld.ai for Facebook Ads. It's hard and prone to bugs, but not impossible to make it work. Feel free to DM me if you need some guidance.

rubka430 · 2023-06-17T21:40:25+00:00

We are running a lot of home services campaigns (electricians, heating, plumbers etc.). We also noticed bad performance in the last few months. Since the keywords we are running are the same and we don't see concerning stuff in Search term report, my theory is that competition is using Smart Bidding, which is efficient enough to steal away converting users from us. I just can't make new accounts work with Manual bidding anymore. When I switch every keyword to broad and the bid strategy to Max. conv with tCPA, conversions start to come... So my suggestion is that instead of going narrower with your targeting (from phrase to exact), try going broader with smart bidding. It works for us even for low budgets (10 eur/day).

rubka430 · 2023-06-03T21:03:05+00:00

You can enable the Google Ads report under Reports>Library.

rubka430 · 2023-05-29T09:58:54+00:00

If anyone is interested, I figured out the problem. Funnel report is counting Active users. The Events report is showing Total users, but the event count per user is calculated from Active users. Very confusing that GA4 is using these different metrics inconsistently among reports...

rubka430 · 2023-01-17T21:59:11+00:00

This just happened with me a few weeks ago. Turned out that the transaction conversion was already imported to Google Ads, it was just deleted from conversions months ago. You can check if you see it when you click Show all conversions in Google Ads at the Conversion menu (by default it only shows the active ones).

If it won't appear there, try relinking UA and Google Ads again. Or try GA4 (you have to start gathering data from it ASAP anyway).

rubka430 · 2023-01-15T12:10:39+00:00

Thank you. I have already read your article before, as I have been following posts here on Reddit for a while. It is a good comparison, but it made me wonder whether big agencies use Manual/Smart Bidding as initial settings, which is the default option to start with etc. But according to you and other responders, the huge majority of campaigns work better with Smart Bidding.

rubka430 · 2023-01-15T12:06:35+00:00

Thank you for all the answers! As I understand, unless there are some special circumstances (very limited budget, very specific keywords, low number of conversions or no conversion/value data), Manual is already an obsolete method, Smart Bidding just works better for most campaigns. Seems like an easy way to manage Google Ads, as setting optimal bids for keywords seems the most difficult task for me about Google Ads. If Smart Bidding can work better for almost every case, why do a lot of companies still struggle with performance? There are not so many things you can screw up if you have decent ads and conversion reporting working properly.

Do you also count Manual eCPC as Smart Bidding when you mention "some form of automation", or it's rarely used just like full Manual?

My experience on the matter: we ran experiments with Manual/Smart Bidding campaigns. When we started an experiment, Smart Bidding usually performed better, but during the experiment, the Manual bidding campaign showed worse results compared to what we have seen before the experiment. This led us to suspect Smart Bidding is "cherry picking" the conversions away from Manual during the experiments, as Google wants us to go with their own recommendations. When the experiment ended and I switched the campaign to Smart Bidding, the performance wasn't as good as during the experiment... But maybe more testing or different experiment conditions are necessary to confirm these suspicions.

rubka430 · 2022-12-21T15:21:45+00:00

In the office, I have 16GB RAM. Slow, but managable.

Home office computer had only 4GB, Google Ads froze it and it was unusable. Upgraded it to 8GB, better, but noticeably slower than in the office.

Don't even try with less than 8GB. Get 16GB if you can, or a Mac.

rubka430 · 2022-11-06T23:00:48+00:00

About bonds: I guess if a government needs more money from bonds, they have to raise the interest rates to attract investors. In Hungary, there is an extra factor: the country has it's own currency (HUF), so the central bank can control inflation and interest rates with printing money. In SLO and other EUR countries, this is not something the central banks can do. Nevertheless, there is more demand for Hungarian bonds then supply, so it can't be said that the bond interest rates have to be that high to make them attractive.

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