I'm seeing the list of metrics available in GA4, and am looking for the "ga:visits" equivalent for GA4 but that seems to be missing.
Several years ago Google Analytics renamed visits to sessions (Article 1, Article 2). sessions in GA4 is the closest equivalent to ga:visits.
I don't think there is an equivalent for universal analytics ga:visits, in GA4 at this time.
At the time of writing the Analytics Data api is still in early preview version of the api, I think your going to have to wait a while before it settles down.
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I have a script that imports data from Google Analytics to my BI. It was working for years. Recently it stopped working.
After investigation, it turns out that removing ga:adMatchedQuery from dimensions solves the issue.
I checked changelogs (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v4/changelog?hl=en, https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/changelog?hl=en, etc.), and do not see any deprecation notices. Are there?
Nevertheless, are there any alternative way of getting visitor's search term for my adds in Google API?
Update:
Further investigation showed that I can make a request if adMatchedQuery is the only dimension. Adding the second dimension (for example, my custom dimention or ga:hour) breaks the request.
For example:
https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/query-explorer/?start-date=2022-09-01&end-date=2022-09-08&metrics=ga%3AgoalCompletionsAll&dimensions=ga%3Asource%2Cga%3Amedium%2Cga%3AadKeywordMatchType%2Cga%3AadMatchedQuery%2Cga%3Acountry%2Cga%3Adate%2Cga%3Ahour&sort=-ga%3AgoalCompletionsAll%2C-ga%3Adate&ids=ANALYTICS_ID produces empty set.
https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/query-explorer/?start-date=2022-09-01&end-date=2022-09-08&metrics=ga%3AgoalCompletionsAll&dimensions=ga%3Asource%2Cga%3Amedium%2Cga%3AadKeywordMatchType%2Cga%3AadMatchedQuery%2Cga%3Acountry%2Cga%3Adate%2C&sort=-ga%3AgoalCompletionsAll%2C-ga%3Adate&ids=ANALYTICS_ID gives me results.
The only difference is that I removed ga:hour from the list of dimensions in the second link.
Same here, it seems google made an update on Sept. 1 to restrict search queries that don't meet their higher privacy threshold, however it seems like they completely shut off search query reporting in GA. Hopefully they recognize this bug and fix it.
Check https://support.google.com/analytics/thread/178348751/search-console-report-not-showing-search-queries-for-landing-pages?hl=en&authuser=1
I had the same issue and here is my solution.
Since Universal Analytics will no longer process new data in standard properties beginning July 1, 2023, Google is asking us to switch over to a Google Analytics 4 property. I guessed that it should be a way to keep us updated. So I updated my property for GA4 and I manage to access that dimension.
The ga:adMatchedQuery now could be found at GA4 as firstUserGoogleAdsQuery,sessionGoogleAdsAdNetworkType or googleAdsQuery.
I also found out that the API changed.
The service in the Google Cloud that used to bring the data was "Google Analytics Reporting API" now you need to use the service "Google Analytics Data API"
That is the quickstart Guide:
https://developers.google.com/analytics...
Metrics and Dimensions:
https://ga-dev-tools.web.app/ga4/dime...
I'm coding in Python, and that video helped me a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
We had the same issue since 5 September.
I found a solution on github. They say you have to replace the ga:adMatchedQuery with ga:keyword.
This works for me, but not entirely sure if it is the same as adMatchedQuery, but the results look good though.
Hope this helps you too.
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.
Google Analytics definitely has a problem in statistic display.
I do query with Date range 14-19 jul:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fim4avm75ohypqs/gatrust2.png
And have 12 transactions from iOS 5.1.1 and 0 from any others versions which is very strange.
Ok, who knows, maybe there is some abnormal users behavior.
But then i do same request, but for 1 day (18 Jul):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m0q0lvuvzu4svy5/gatrust1.png
Now there is 6 transactions shown from others versions.
I have feeling that i may meet such inconsistencies in Google Analytics in other queries,
where i just do not see exact inconsistencies proof, but feel that provided information is not logical.
Does it mean, that i can’t trust to information provided by GA?
Just use it as some... sandbox tool?
Confused.
Probably the inconsistencies are caused by Google Analytics sampling. When you have a lot of visits, Google Analytics (free plan) only takes only a part of them to show the corresponding stats.
If you look at the first of your captions, you can see in the upper right a box saying: "This report is based on 248.360 visits (8,36% of sessions)". So you are only seeing data from 8,36% of the real visits. You don't know what the other 91,64% did in that date range.
If you want reliable data with such high number of visits, Google Analytics (free) is probably not your best option. You could use Google Analytics Premium (quite expensive, but eliminates the sampling issue), other paid analytics software or some free alternative like Piwik or Open Web Analytics.
I am looking for a way, how can I grab some statistics from Google Universal Analytics to my site? Is there any way to display users statistics on site, grabbing from Analytics like below?
Example:
Users today: 10
Week: 70
Month:270
Total: 1500
I found a couple of information from Google, but was not suitable to this topic. All finding results were about old Google Analytics( without upgrading to Universal) and were displaying all statistic results, including Charts.
You can us the Google analytics API to get the stats you are looking for. You will probably end up doing 3 different requests, because of the fact that the request is made by dates. You will have a problem getting the correct count for Today and yesterday, because the Google Analytics data hasn't finished processing yet it normally takes 24 - 48 hours for the numbers to be correct.
Becouse of the fact that you are only looking to see your own data I recommend you look into using service account for authentication.
I have this GA-tracked application that is not counting all my events and goal conversions. Events are correctly displayed in the Real-Time chart, but the reports apparently discard some of them. My goal completion counts are being incorrectly reported, too - for example, in a given day my user registration goal displayed less than 20 goal completions but I had almost 100 new users.
I am using Universal Analytics and my pageview count is still low compared to the GA threshold.
Any thoughts?
I also found few bugs and especially some events not firing properly. Hence, I move to old code again. Even in old code,” doubleclick.js” code not working for some Event Tracking. After I replace the code with old” ga.js” file all the event functions start to work without any modifications to the source code. Please stick with the old code for next few months.
Just check Avinash website (http://www.kaushik.net) , as we all know he is the digital marketing evangelist for Google. He is still using the old ga.js code. This tells that this new Universal Analytics code have some hidden bugs and they are testing the code with user experience. Hence this is not the time to fully depend on Universal Analytics. Sooner they will come up with updates and then it will be ok to move to Universal Analytics.