Do you know if there is a test data-set for google analytics you can use? Basically, I want to try a new thing with our new student-worker at my work. The person is completely new to google analytics, and I wanted to set up a test environment, where the person can get comfortable with google analytics not fearing for making mistakes and begin to move over to our company's google analytics over the next couple of weeks.
Thank you!
You can access the Google Analytics Demo account. The data comes from the Google Merchandise store. There are some limitations to the access. For example, it is read only and you don't have API access.
I believe you are looking for this, Google Analytics sample dataset for BigQuery: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7586738?hl=en
The sample dataset provides an obfuscated Google Analytics 360 dataset that can be accessed via BigQuery. It’s a great way to look at business data and experiment and learn the benefits of analyzing Google Analytics 360 data in BigQuery.
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So I will try to explain myself the best I can, and I would really appreciate any help!
May main Goal here is to export FireBase data to a DataStudio. I know how easy this is, just link FireBase to BigQuery and create a DataStudio with this data source. There's even already an awesome template for this.
But is not that simple, I work at an agency, this is a huge corporate client and their internal people work is a mess.
The problem here is: I can get "property" access to Firebase, and I have linked my Bigquery account to this project, but what I can't see is the whole app information in Bigquery.
What I see is the data from "crashalytics", "messaging", "performance" and predictions.
But can't seem to find the "normal info" off the app, the events, conversions, audiences, etc...
This is where I can't understand some things that I would like you to help me with, I have some theories.
In the configuration of bigquery integration on firebase I have every switch marked as "On" but one, the analytics one.
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Now here is where all my questions come:
- ¿Do I need this switch to be on so I can visualize, for example Events or users information on Bigquery?
If so, what is the realtion between Firebase and Google Analytics?:
- ¿Is it necesary to have a Google Analytics account integrated with the Firebase project in order for bigquery to extract the data and show it?
- ¿Can I extract directly through firebase the data without Google analytics?
And an extra one: If I remove the Google Analytics account from my Firebase project, and add a new one, ¿Would the new Google Analytics also have the data so I can extract it with Bigquery and build my panel?
The biggest problem here is that this Firebase account was created long ago, and the client haves no idea what Google Analytics account is Linked to the Firebase project, they know nobody with acces to it, and they say "I'ts an old analytics, we only need Firebase information to show on datastudio" but I'm starting to feel this is not possible without this Google Analytics acces.
Pleaaase some help with this.
Thank you very much in advance.
I solved it, if anybody comes to this problem, the problem was I needed permision to the analytics web + app created from firebase.
I've linked firebase analytics app to BigQuery and getting raw data under app_events and app_events_intraday tables.
Our major requirement behind using BigQuery is to get analytics data that we get under Firebase analytics dashboard e.g. active_users, new users, audience geo locations and so on.
We can get these kinds of data using GA REST API for web applications but here we are using firebase app for mobile application and we came to know that BigQuery is the only option to get analytics data.
Can I get google analytics historic data like I get it on Firebase analytics dashboard?
Also, I get this data by downloading CSV from the same dashboard but that is a manual approach and I am looking to automate it.
Please acquaint me with the right approach to get analytics data for firebase app.
Thanks!
I would like to use Google Dataflow to process Google Analytics data from many websites and store the results in a Google SQL.
But I was doing some research and I couldn't find a way to read the GA data from Google Dataflow directly.
There is one way if you have Google Analytics 360 you can enable the bigQuery integration but I will be using the Free version of Google Analytics not the 360.
Has anybody worked with something similar?
Cheers,
It would really depend on what type of data you're looking to pull. The GA360 integration with BigQuery extracts all the raw data (hit level) from Google Analytics. There is no way to do the same thing with the free version of Google Analytics.
However, you should be able to write your own Apache Beam Source that pulls data from Google Analytics using the Reporting API. Of course you would be restricted by the API limits.
As I mentioned in the beginning of my answer, this all depends on what type of data you're trying to get at. Aggregated/high-level data should be possible but granular/hit-level data won't.
I just started at a company and the new web host hasn't been sharing data to google analytics so there is no info at all for the past 6 months in my analytics account. They just put in the tracking code last friday. Is there anyway to see data in google that is not there??
No, of course not. You cannot see something that isn't there. And you couldn't even recreate the data even if you had it from other sources, since Google does not allow to import historical data.
However you might have alternatives - your webserver should keep a logfile, and you can analyze this with programs like Awstats or similar (free or commercial) software packages. This is really old school (log file analysis was the way to go before cloud based javascript trackers became common) and the results will not quite match data collected via Google Analytics, but it should give you at least a broad idea what was going on on your site.
I need to explore the possibility of passing my existing GA eCommerce data (using Classic Analytics) over to a new universal analytics account.
I do not want to make the full switch as yet for various reasons. I do however want to use universal analytics to track newsletter email opens.
I would very much like to include the transaction data to this new universal analytics account so that I can put opens and revenue side-by-side. I know it is possible to aggregate analytics accounts to one profile but because classic and universal are different I wonder if there is any way we can aggregate data from Classic to universal?
Or do I place two tracking scripts on the thank you page?
Any tips or advice will be much appreciated.
From official help page "Set up Universal Analytics":
Best practices
If you want to try UA on a website you’re already tracking with Google
Analytics, we recommend you use the ga.js and analytics.js tracking
code concurrently to maintain continuity in your first account. Send
the data sets to separate properties: UA data to a dedicated UA
property, and ga.js data to a non-UA property. Data cannot be merged
or reprocessed after it’s collected. Alternative configurations are
not supported and can result in corrupted or incomplete data.
In the coming months, look for documentation to help you migrating
your existing Google Analytics web properties and data to UA.
So you can place two tracking scripts on the page.