I have a fully functional and working code (written in C#) which purpose is to track some hits to the specified GA property. This code has been tested and still works successfully. It adds some predefined dimensions (like App Version) to each hit and a several custom metrics to a certain hit types (like event with a certain Event Action).
So far so good everything works flawlessly when taking into account the first property to which these hits are being sent. Also everything is fine when I set up a brand new GA property and track my hits to it - that is, I'm able to see events in Realtime reports, and events show up in custom reports after a while so that I can see my custom metrics.
The issue is that when I try to send absolutely the same hits to the existing property which had been created and configured ages ago - there is no both dimensions (even predefined) and custom metrics in my custom reports. I see these events in realtime and behavior reports, and I'm even able to create a custom report against events count - but that's it. I'm able to use for example Day of the month as a primary dimension, but when I try to use App Version as a dimension or my custom metrics as report metrics - it says "There is no data for this view.".
I've already tried everything I could, have read almost every post about custom definitions in Google and viewed almost each related SO question and answer - still with no luck.
We use measurement protocol
There is a correct User Agent being sent with each hit
17 days has passed since my first attempt to track these hits with existing property
There is no filters and segments at all
There is only one view
For me it looks like a property misconfiguration, but I've inspected each configuration page (I have all possible rights granted) and have not found anything related.
Will appreciate any help with this issue.
UPD: The hit itself (with the sensitive data replaced):
t=event&ec=session&ea=connection_end&el=b225d53a-6bb2-8021-f7b5-ae7004ae0a00&cm1=174960&cm2=1751494&cm3=479033&tid=UA-XXXXXXX-X&cid=4119e77f-be87-4530-04d3-33882f8eea77&v=1&av=XX.XX.99.555&an=my-awesome-app&aid=app.awesome.my
UPD: Here is what I'm trying to achieve (screenshot was made at the test property, where everything works like a charm):
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I have successfully created a GTM trigger and tag using the click_text parameter. When I preview and when I published the change both were successful in showing up on my Google Analytics 4 debug and real time tabs. I cannot seem to find a recorded total for this new tag trigger in either GTM or GA4 anywhere. Does this exist in either of these, or do I need to create an event in GA4 unrelated to what I set up in GTM. I have read most of Google's provided documentation on this specific step and it stops flat at this step of things.
Thank you in advance.
If you see your event in real time data report in GA, you're good. The data is in that property. It, however, is not yet available for aggregation, so you won't be able to count them or use them in other reports.
You should wait up to two days for the data to be in the non-real time reports. Vast majority of the data will be available for aggregation in one day, however. Some starts showing up in hours. GA 360 (paid version of GA) shortens the two days to four hours until all data is there.
I'd also suggest using Adswerve plugin for GA debugging: it will print all DataLayer changes as well as everything that is being sent to GA in the console. It's much more comfortable than using real time hits report and it will show you all dimensions that are being sent to GA.
I've setup a Zapier automation to fire an event every time a new deal is made on a 3rd party CRM. The automation triggers fine, and retrieves the GA Client ID stored in the CRM. The goal of this automation is to add the value of the deal to the client's session history. This works completely fine on a new test GA View I made as well as the original one (the one left without any filters).
However, there's one GA View which has both, anti-bot/spider setting and 3 filters set up. I tried disabling all four of them, yet the event still wasn't being fired - not in real-time, nor User Explorer. Wondering what could be the cause of this. All views are, of course, of the same property. Are there any other filters (besides the anti-bot/spider setting and view filters) or options I may have missed that are view-specific that would cause events sent by Zapier not to fire on just this one view?
Any help is appreciated!
The update of the settings, in the specific case relating to the filters, may not be immediate. If you leave the filters disabled, you can certainly check if after midnight (or after a few hours after midnight) you see that data in the reports.
This happens because after midnight the data is reprocessed again, so for that day (which has therefore become the previous one), if you have removed the filters, you should find all the data.
I have noticed an odd behavior when working on Google Analytics. I have enabled a custom dimension in an existing installation, and then started sending hits to GA with said custom dimension in it right away. (For clarification, this was a previous custom dimension, which was disabled and set to Product scope; I enabled it, renamed it and changed it to User)
The odd thing is that for a while, whenever I tried to show my custom dimensions in reports, I got an empty list, as if there were no hits with custom dimensions in them - even though I'm certain that they were being sent. However, a few hours after I tried again and I checked that this time around, the custom dimensions did appear in my reports - I could add them as a dimension to my reports and get back some results.
What bothers me is that when I checked the times of the rows I was getting in the report, it appears as though I only got results from the attempts I did several hours after setting the custom dimensions - apparently, the first hits weren't getting any custom dimensions with them.
So my question is - is there a setup period for creating or modifying custom dimensions during which GA will not record the new dimension data? Or could it be that I am overlooking something in my setup? (I'm pretty certain the clients were sending the right data at all times.)
Yes, in my experience it can take up to 3 hours (depends on a lot of factors).
So next time anticipate the need for the custom dimension or just be ready to lose some data.
I am playing with Google Analytics API and found that when I get the web property list, I have a defaultProfileId very useful. It can just help me pass the queryProfiles call, to save one request and make the whole app works faster.
But I noticed that some web properties just don't have the defaultProfileId thing.
Just for the information, most of the situations happens to a tracking ID like UA-XXXX-1.
Any tips?
Thanks!
You are correct webProperty does not always return a defaultProfileId. I was also unable to find any information on the Web Properties page as to how the API decides what a Default Profile Id is. I submitted a bug report for it, with the Analytics dev team you can find it at: defaultProfileId - not always sent with a WebProperty. Lets hope they come with a response you are correct this is a very useful feature.
Yes you are probably going to have to query the profiles every time to get the correct profile you are after.
I just found this:
https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/management/accounts/~all/webproperties/~all/profiles?oauth_token={Token}
There should be away of working that to make one request for accounts, one to get all the Web Properties , then one to get all the Profiles.
A client I am working for has a requirement to use historical data in Google Analytics to present a report that shows them page views on a specific page, but only when refereed to said page from the homepage, basically like in-site ad tracking. I have discovered that I can create reports that are grouped on a user-defined variable, however I need previous data to also be included in this report, and therefore cannot simply define this inside of my Google Analytics call.
I have therefore been experimenting with Advanced filters, in an attempt to populated the user-defined field with a query-string variable. I have attached an image below illustrate my current configuration:
This configuration isn't populating the "User-Defined" field, and therefore not producing the desired results.
Any help would be appriciated.
Any filters you set will only be applied to new data, not historic.
Probably what you are after can be retrieved through the Analytics API (you can use the Query explorer for that).
Try the following:
dimensions: ga:nextPagePath
metrics: ga:uniquePageviews
filters: ga:previousPagePath=~<YOUR STARTING PAGE>;ga:nextPagePath=~page\=
sort: -ga:uniquePageviews
What the query is asking is "Which are the top pages that include 'page=' did users click on from your starting page?"