You have a new option if you want to create a report for GA4 events. And that’s very good news, since the event-based data model in GA4 means that all important web interactions like clicks, downloads, form submissions, and purchases are tracked as events.
Here are the best options you have for creating a GA4 events report, starting with the simplest.
Read more[Updated 3/22/24] Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager are tools that can be connected, but are nonetheless very different from each other. Here’s how to draw the distinction between Google Analytics vs. Tag Manager:
At the core, Google Analytics is a “web analytics” tool for analyzing your website. Google Tag Manager is a “tag management” tool for managing code snippets on your website. Let’s dive in to see what that means and how you can use both.
Read moreGA4 data streams are what gets data into Google Analytics. This article explains how to work with data streams and has some cautions.
Read moreIf you fully understand GA4 events, you can understand Google Analytics 4.
Google Analytics has an event-centric data model. Configuration, customization, and reporting are all geared around events. If you watch this embedded video events tutorial, the whole platform makes sense in a new way.
Read moreUpdated: 11/6/24 Parameters are the additional pieces of data that add more context to Google Analytics 4 events. If you’re new, GA4 event parameters can be a confusing part of the Google Analytics ecosystem.
Read moreUpdated: 1/24/25 Google Analytics collects the session_start event every time a new session (a new visit) begins on your site. The event is used to counts total sessions.
Not only can you use the session start event to keep tabs on your total site visits, but you can use the event to create segments and audiences from your users based on how many visits they’ve made. You’ll learn how in this article.
Read moreUpdated: 1/25/25 The Google Analytics source medium traffic dimension is one way to analyze your website traffic. The source tells you the specific “place” the traffic came from. The medium tells you about the “type” of traffic. Put them together and you have source / medium.
Read moreUpdated 1/25/25: Google Signals provides enhanced user tracking, remarketing capability, and deeper reporting functionality in Google Analytics 4. It also presents some potential downsides that marketers should understand.
Here’s the information you need.
Read moreUpdated: 1/25/25 Automatically collected events are the foundation of GA4 event tracking. Unlike other events, there is nothing you need to do to set them up. They are collected – you guessed it – automatically.
Let’s review the three automatically collected events and how you can use them in your analysis.
Read moreUpdated: 1/27/25 You can can use report filters to replicate much of the same functionality that you liked about “views” from the days of Universal Analytics. Easy breezy. And if you’re wondering about the metric called “Views” the answer is even faster. Let’s get to it.
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