Can anyone verify the limit and quota numbers on free accounts for me? I've found 3 different mentions, that all seem to contradict with each other.
According to the Google Analytics Terms of Service it is 10M hits per month per account.
But in the Google Developer Guides it specifies "10M hits per month per property." (emphasis not mine)
And finally, a Data Limits support article is in itself conflicting stating that "If a property sends more hits per month to Analytics than allowed by the Analytics Terms of Service" and links to the Analytics ToS that specifies per account.
I currently have one property getting ~7.5M hits/mo and is the only property on the acct. I have more properties I'd like to add, but need to know if it will cause an issue.
The limit is 10M hits/mo but for personal experience this is not a real limit. I have some propertys with over 200M hits/mo without 360 and nothing happen so far.
You should be fine for a while but its not a bad practice to audit the current state and evaluate if you might have unecessary events being tracked.
Hope it helps!
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I wonder whether someone can help me please.
I have a user who under a specific property, sporadically receives the following error:
Some hits sent on 03-Jul-2018 to property ...... exceeded one or more hit quotas and were therefore not processed.
Hits can be dropped when daily or monthly hit limits are exceeded. You can view your hit volume levels in Property Settings in Analytics.
Hits can also be dropped if visitor hit limits are exceeded. This can happen when your site is incorrectly generating the visitor ID for a GA session. Contact your website administrator to check that the visitor ID generation has been correctly implemented.
They are not using the Premium account but when I look at the data for the day in question, there aren't any issues with regards to 'High Cardinality' which unless I've misunderstood I'd expect to see.
Could someone look at this please and offer some guidance where the issue may be because this area is fairly new to me.
Many thanks and kind regards
Chris
Collection limits are influenced by 2 factors:
The tracker: whether you use ga.js,gtag.js,analytics.js etc... here are the details.
The property type: whether you are using GA (10M hits / month) or GA 360 (2B hits / month).
In your case you are facing a property limit. To find out when such limits where reached, you can create a custom report using a time dimension (eg date+time) combined with the hits metric. You can also combine the hit metrics with other dimensions (country, browser, device) to see if you find any patterns as to why you're getting so many hits.
Cardinality is something else: it refers to the number of unique value combinations for your dimensions. For instance if you have 500K events where each event category is different, you'll have a Cardinality of 500K on the event category dimension. The more hits, the more likely you'll have a high cardinality, but the 2 aren't necessary related (if you send 10B events with the same category, the cardinality on the category is 1).
So focus on identifying and solving your limits/quotas issue, as it's the real issue here:
If the number of hits is legitimate (you have a huge amount of traffic), then the only options are to upgrade to GA 360 or reduce the number of hits for each session
If the number of hits is abnormally high (eg traffic is stable but hits increased dramatically), look for implementation issues, especially generic event trackers such as error tracking with tools like Google Tag Manager
We are using Google Analytics on a webshop. Recently we have added enhanced ecommerce to measure more events so we can optimize the webshop. But now we are experiencing less pageviews and other data is missing.
I don't know what it is, but on a specific page we are nog measuring anymore, I removed some items from the ga:addImpression data, and now the pageview is measured again.
I can find limits for GA, but I can't find anything for the amount of data that can be send to GA. Because is this seems to be related to the amount of data that is send to GA. If I shorten the name of a product, the pageview is also measured again. GA is practically broken now for us because we are missing huge numbers of pageviews.
Where can I find these limits, or how will I ever know when I'm running into these limits?
In one hand, im not sure how are you building your hits but maybe you should keep in mind the payload limits to send information to GA. (The limit is 8Kb)
In the other hand there is a limit in fact that you should consider (Docs)
This applies to analytics.js, Android iOS SDK, and the Measurement Protocol.
200,000 hits per user per day
500 hits per session
If you go over either of these limits, additional hits will not be processed for that session / day, respectively. These limits apply to Analytics 360 as well.
My best advise is to regulate the amount of events you send really considering which information has value. No doubt EE data is really important so you should partition productImpression hits in multiple ones of the problem is the size. (As shown in the screenshot)
And finally, migrate to GTM.
EDIT: Steps to see what the dataLayer has in it (in a given moment)
A Google Analytics request can send max about 8KB of data:
POST:
payload_data – The BODY of the post request. The body must include
exactly 1 URI encoded payload and must be no longer than 8192 bytes.
URL Endpoint
The length of the entire encoded URL must be no longer than 8000
Bytes.
If your hit exceeds that limit (happens e.g. with large product lists in EEC tracking) it is not (as far as I can tell) processed.
There are also restrictions to field length for some fields (e.g. custom dimension with max 150 bytes, others are detailed in the parameter reference ).
In some cases the data type is relevant, e.g. if in your event tracking the event value is set to a string the call might fail.
I think this is the page you are looking for Quota and limits page can help
These limits apply to the Web Property / Property / Tracking ID.
10 million hits per month per property
If you go over this limit, the Google Analytics team might contact you and ask you upgrade to Analytics 360 or implement client sampling to reduce the amount of data being sent to Google Analytics.
Google Analytics Documentation says the following:
hese limits apply to the Web Property / Property / Tracking ID.
10 million hits per month per property
If you go over this limit, the Google Analytics team might contact you
and ask you upgrade to Analytics 360 or implement client sampling to
reduce the amount of data being sent to Google Analytics.
For monthly total Analytics 360 limits, please contact your account
manager or service representative.
What does this mean exactly ?
I know there is sampling , the one which you see in your reports..
But if your traffic exceeds the 10 milion hits per month, is there an automatic sampling system which forbids you to capture all incoming traffic?
In other words : Does google limit your traffic automaticly at the source? Not in the reports but in the source, let's say I capture 20mil hits a month, will i have all that traffic in my property or does it stop at a certain point?
AGAIN : i'm not talking about report sampling but about the actual captured data a month
Thanks in advance
No, Google does not limit data collection. You have to implement this yourself, although they give you a means to do that at least in the Javascript Tracking code. Implementing sampling yourself would be a little tricky since you want to sample out whole sessions, not individual pageviews.
If you record 20 mio hits you will have them in your property. But at that point you operate outside your quota and Google has the right to terminate your account (they will not do that without getting in contact with you, provided you respond to mails send to the Google accounts authorized to use your GA properties).
So far Google has been, in my experience, very generous even with large overruns, but you should not base something business critical on the violation of TOS for a free service.
I'm looking for prices of additionnal API calls within Google Analytics.
In the developers console, I can enter my billing information, but before, I'd like to find a price table somewhere.
I know that the free quota is 50 000 requests per month, I know we can ask for an extension, but I need much more and I'm ready to pay. The only question is : what does it cost ?
Thanks !
That's 50,000 requests per day. If you need more, you can go Premium, but even if you do some limits will remain the same. Check their page on Collection Limits and Quota. Pricing probably varies on your needs and scopes.
Say I have an article which has been viewed 100 times and has an Average Visit Duration of 01:00:00 hrs. Is there any way I can break down those statistics - and see how long each individual visit lasted for?
(I should state that I'm not looking to find out information about particular IP addresses or anything like that. I just want to get some idea of the 'mode visit' - the time most people spent on the page.)
Google Analytics doesn't provide enough detailed insights for invividual visitor details. If you want a more granular data try CardioLog Analytics
Yes, right, Google doesn't provide that. I tend to use sitemeter in conjuction with Google. Not sure if I recommend sitemeter though. It does give specifics about individual visitors, but they are very flaky. I don't think I've ever gotten a response from their so-called "tech support" or anything else from them.
The short answer is no, you can't. Google Analytics doesn't provide individual visitor details as it violates the GA Terms of Service.
However there are a couple ways to get at or close to this information:
1) Create an advanced segment - use the "Page" dimension and include the URI of the article on your site. Apply it and then look at the city or service provider report - it will show you all visits that viewed the article.
2) Keep a copy of the tracking data sent to Google and process it with on premises web analytics software that doesn't have the same ToS/privacy restrictions.