I have a project which was using statcounter to track visitors and now I need to implement Google Analytics and migrate the existing data to it. It's that possible?
As far as i could search, Data Import does not applies here, because I need to add new data information and not add more info to my current data.
I found this similar question, but, if I understood right, I can't import old data? I have years of data from statcounter.
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I want to get analytics data of each user of my website. I know that google analytics provide data user wise but I am not able to export that data using API. I want real time user wise data with export feature to save it in my database. I have gone through many platform like mouseflow but they do not provide data user wise. Is anyone have idea how can I implement this?
Thanks!
Here an example of how to get data from Google Real Time API (with Google Apps Script):
https://www.appsscript.it/tutorial/utilizzare-le-real-time-reporting-api-di-google-analytics-con-apps-script/
I'm not very familiar with Google Analytics. I'm trying to figure out what the schema would look like for an export that contains all purchases for any users that have visited my site. So to sum it up, I'm interested in understanding what the data structure will look like (column names) for an export from GA that contains all purchases on my site.
Thank you in advance for any insight you may have.
There is no export schema for Google Analytics as such, but the best source for this could be BigQuery Export Schema (BigQuery is included in the Premium/360 version of GA).
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3437719?hl=en
You will be able to access it even if you are not GA360 paying customer. The export schema is pretty solid, however keep in mind that there are some vital dimensions that are not available through API/GA interface by default.
Hope this helps.
The company I work for has a custom reporting schedule, similar to the month specific groups four or more weeks are grouped into 'periods'. I have a mapping from date to period that I wish to upload to Google Analytics using its data import function.
When I get to selecting the schema on the data import tool there is no option to select the date as the key to join my data on.
Is this possible in Google Analytics? What is the correct method?
No, this is for the most part not possible; imported data is applied to incoming data but not to data that has already been collected, and then it is applied to all hits, not to a specific timeframe. Also you cannot create new interactions, you can only amend or change interaction data as it is being collected.
Google Analytics Premium (now 360) accounts have a feature called query time imports where imported data is applied to existing data in GA. This still does not allow you to selected a date as key, but if you have created a custom dimension and stored a date in there you should be able to make this work (since you can select a custom dimension as key field); however if have not actually tested this, so this is an educated guess.
But for the most part no, this does not work in GA and there is no correct method for your use case.
I just started using google analytics and I wanted to import the exist analytics tool data into GA.
I see that GA has a submenu where one can import data, but i don´t seem to find any export menu in AWStats.
I asked my webmaster before bothering you, but he didn´t have an idea.
I checked the web and couldn't´t find export related topics.
in the attachment a screenshot of the submenus for AWStats.
Did anybody try this before ?
Thanks in advance.
GA data import cannot create hits, it can just amend already existing hits with additional data. So the answer is pretty much "no".
(You could pipe in new hit data via the measurement protocol, but you could not set a date/timestamp and there is a limited hit quota per second, so this would take a long time and you would lose the original time information on your hits, which would probably render the data useless).
I'm looking to import a csv which would contain:
1. The date a client signed up
2. Where they heard of us (online/facebook/storefront etc)
3. Their location
4. And if they became a sale are pending or not (y/n/na)
Given that type of data is this feasible to do. I've been attempting to do this in a variety of ways, mainly importing the data (though the ga import button) to custom dimensions. However after creating custom dimensions for each I am failing to see the data in any shape or form. I've created a custom report attempting to view these custom dimensions but it fails to show me anything after a couple days (I am aware of the 24hr potential processing timeframe).
Any help would be appreciated!
You could start by quickly setting up a Dashboard with Table widgets for each of these Custom Dimensions, with say, their associated number of Pageviews and/or Sessions. This would help you be sure whether or not data is correctly being recorded.
If that does not provide any positive result, make sure that the data you imported respects the format expected by the Data Import tool.
For details about the format, Google Analytics recently updated their documentation with file samples: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/4524584?hl=en&ref_topic=6015090