Question:
Is there a lag time between Clarity & Google Analytics?
Problem:
Google Analytics doesn't appear to be receiving any data from Clarity.
Context:
I created an application extender sppkg for an intranet that is pulling data into Clarity, which is great, but another requirement is to use Google Analytics (GA) along with it. So I integrated GA with Clarity, and verified that Clarity created a new dimension like the documentation described (I did this manually as well as through the setup tool in case something weird was going on) however, no data is making it's way to GA, and the GA dashboard in the Clarity tool says, "No data available".
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screenshot of no data available
screenshot of good GA connection
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I'm trying to figure out if this works. Unfortunately I do not have a website to test this with. Though I've read the GA and GAds documentation I'm not sure if this is possible. So please bear with me.
Imagine a simple website that has Google Analytics (with a linked GAds account) deployed. I want to run a survey on this site users can answer if they like to. As the result of the survey the participants are assigned some ID. Lets say the result variable is called cluster and the values are A, B or C.
What I want to do now, is use this group of participants of the survey and try to target new visitors that are similar to the ones that have been assigned a C value via Google Ads.
As far as I understood the documentations this is how it could be done. Please correct me and point me in the right direction if I'm wrong.
I'm setting up a custom user dimension called Cluster in GA
I'm editing the GA code on the website to include the custom dimension that will be populated with the result of the mentioned survey
When the results come into GA, I'm creating a remarketing audience in GA called Cppl based on the custom dimension Cluster
I'm importing this Cppl remarketing audience into GAds
I'm creating a similar audience in GAds based on Cppl list
I'm publishing a campaign based on this similar audience
Does this process make sense and is it correct or am I making any mistakes?
It makes sense to me, once you have defined the segment you need in Google Analytics you can use it for remarketing in Google Ads.
I have two view/profiles linked to my google analytics account. I want to fetch the hourly data for the current day, ie
start date:today
end date: today
with a few filters and dimensions.
Now I am getting the response for one view that means it is possible in google analytics, however for the other view its showing all the values as 0- this applies both to the gui and the api.
Can anyone suggest me how to enable it for the other view as well?
You cannot. Google Analytics needs some processing time. It might be that some data appears immediately, especially on small accounts, but it's not guaranteed and not a thing you can "enable" or count on.
Updated: Okay, that was a dumb answer. Still, there is a processing latency event in GA Premium. It is possible to get realtime data, but that's a different API with limited data (the core reporting API might return data, but no guarantees for that).
But I admit, since your problem is that you do not get data for the whole day yor have a different problem. But with a premium account you should be able to contact your account manager/technical support.
Is it possible in the dashboard to report a value which is a custom calculation between fields?
I have an event called "banner_impression" and another one called "banner_click"
I would like to calculate which is the percentage of "banner_click" events over "banner_impression" events.
Any way to report such calculated value in a dashboard?
Nope. Sadly calculated metrics are not a feature in any version of Google Analytics. I hear Adobe Analytics has it, but that's an enterprise-level paid solution.
You'll have to export the data out of Google Analytics, open it in Excel, and then divide your clicks by your impressions to include it in any sort of dashboard. Excel plugins are available that can help with this, and they include Analytics Edge, Next Analytics, and the Napkyn Reporting Manger.
There are also dashboarding applications like Klipfolio and Mixpanel that can allow you to suck in data from various sources (incl. Google Analytics) and present your data in a much more appealing way.
Trying to dig in to GA here. I have a site built on a wiki platform (confluence) that has not had any GA setup prior. Trying to see if I could do something crafty with the GAPI to pull historical data as the site has been up for some ~3 years.
Is there any way to pull data if GA was not set up on any of the pages, or am I SOL? Took a gander at https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v3/reference but didn't see a clear answer
I have only used Google Analytics to track data as it comes in. If you have the historical data stored somewhere, you could probably write a script to iterate over the standard ga script and send off trackpageviews with the data you want, but unless you or someone else actually have the usage data tracked somewhere, you won't be able to materialize it out of thin air.
I'm looking to create a custom alert to notify me whenever X number of people are on the site at once. This data is already available using the Real-Time reports page. However, this does not seem possible via the Intelligence Events section. From there, I'm only able to create custom alerts based off Day, Week, or Month data. Has anybody found another area of Google Analytics that would make this type of report possible?
Google Analytics have just launched a Beta of their Real Time API which might let you do this: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/01/google-launches-real-time-api-for-analytics-in-invite-only-beta/
You can use the real-time API for that. It's been possible for quite a few years now. You can find all the documentation for that right here. It's typical OAuth + JSON API.
You can also use a paid service. I built one, Metrics Watch. It really depends of your goal and how critical this is to your business/job. If it's critical, I would highly encourage you to look for a paid service, no matter which one.
Hope that helps!