I'm trying to create an experiment in Google Analytics. However, all of the documentation available online seems to be out of date. I can get to the Behaviour -> Experiments area, which seems to be the only mention of experiments on the site, but then there's no option to create one.
Does anyone know how to start an experiment, or if this feature has been disabled?
It turned out to be a permissions problem: if you don't have permissions to create an experiment, the button doesn't exist.
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I am trying to generate a report using Google Analytics Explore tab using Free Form technique. Few weeks ago I could use Message name, stream name and time to see all the notification name, platform and total no of click. I exported the same to excel file.
but today when I tried to generate the same I couldn't find "Message Name" dimension. Is this field removed from pre defined/custom dimensions from GA? or am I doing something wrong?
My main purpose is to get all list of notifications sent via Firebase.
Any help will be deeply appreciated.
Given that you excluded the obvious issues like using the too-fresh data, the proper way to debug it is to export the data into a sample BQ table, then conduct exactly the same analysis that you're trying to conduct in GA4's explorer. From there, if your issue is with explorer's filters, you will quickly see it.
If, however, you're able to see your event properties in BQ, but not able to get the explorer to display them... Well, Google likely saved quite a lot of money on GA4. UA was pretty expensive. GA4 now introduces all these amazing features like data retention limits, properties' values cardinality bugs, odd inconsistencies between explore's reports and default reports and so on.
For now, the best way to really access your data minus all the artificial limitations of GA4 is to ETL your data from there either through the reporting API or exporting it to BQ.
We were checking newly implemented Google Analytics for our mobile app and surprisingly there are a lot of visitors from multiple countries but in actuality, we haven't released our app for any store and it's just beta between 5 main users.
After checking Google Analytics report in details we have found that it got spammed by Bot call "Trumps Bot" when something happens on your account you can see following lines in your language section.
“Secret.ɢoogle.com You are invited! Enter only with this ticket URL. Copy it. Vote for Trump!”
There are a lot of solution available to avoid this data in your reports using the filter but i was just wondering if there is any concrete solution on permanently remove this data from my reports and also is there anything we can do to avoid such data in future as its seriously affecting business strategy.
Due the tecnology used on Google Analytics the only way to eliminate this referal is using a filter, check one common point of all this hits . In this case is a hard one, because all the parameters changes , exept for the language, for a well know reason, to see the spam.
So try to use this one, in my case works
I highly recommend you read the community policy, this can be considered as off-topic question
Analytics spammers are always trying to find new ways of getting attention, and with this one, this spammer hit it big.
It is not possible to permanently remove it unless you delete the whole property. But you can create and advance segment to get a clean view.
But the most important part is blocking it so it doesn't pollutes your data. For this particular type of spam you should create a custom exclude language filter with this expression:
\s[^s]*\s|.{15,}|.|,
That expression will block any hit that doesn't use a proper language. That combined with a valid hostname filter should prevent most of the current spam and save you a lot of headaches.
If you need help, you can check this step by step guide for building these filters and creating the advanced segment to remove it from your historical data.
Here is also a related question.
Login in to Your Google Analytics account
Select ADMIN Section
Click on All Filters -- Add Filters
Give a filter name such as -- Include only website traffic
In Predefined section, select Include Only
for more... Click Here
My first post. I'm having big problems with a Goal Funnel in Google Analytics.
We've set up a funnel to track registration from our main company site to user registration which is handled on a third-party site (using a virtual pageview to track the user's 'click' to continue to the registration).
We're clearly doing something wrong however as the funnel seems to have a conversion rate of 100% for several steps. From the many tutorials and posts I've read it looks like there could be something wrong in our syntax and GA is seeing at least two pages as the same then backfilling the funnel to give this incorrect 100%.
Problem is - after many tweaks - we still can't seem to find quite what this error is. I'm also not entirely sure if we should be using 'begins with' or 'regular expression' for the funnel and if that the correct application of one of those would nip this data issue in the bud instantly.
Underneath is the configuration and then the data it's showing us in GA.
Thanks for any help on this!
p.s. Since we're using tag manager, I also wasn't sure if this could this be something in our firing rules but since the first conversion step in the funnel looks ok I guess that rules this out and points straight to the funnel??
p.p.s. Sorry, since I normally just read, I don't have permission to embed images.
[The goal flow]
[IMG]http://i60.tinypic.com/pmwk8.png[/IMG]
[The funnel setup]
[IMG]http://i58.tinypic.com/23lkqqt.png[/IMG]
The virtual pageview you have in the second image in step 2, is: virtual/registration. The virtual pageview that is firing off when I click on Register for online account is: /virtual/cas-registration#https://signin.mygovscot.org/home/?sp=register/CLK. So you'll want to update step 2 to: /virtual/cas-registration(.*) - I believe you can use regular expressions in goal funnel steps.
I've been playing with the new google analytics feature:
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-25634
...and can happily report it definitely does work, albeit with one caveat, I can't get the real time dashboard to work. I know sometimes with new google analytics accounts it can take time for both the data to filter through and the real time to start to work, however, I have had my account for many weeks now and data is indeed filtering through but the real time dashboard stubbornly refuses to work.
My hunch is it's a timezone problem and the reason why it's not showing is because the timestamps on the analytics data from my sakai instance differs from my timezone set on the dashboard (therefore the data is sent but the real time dashboard does not display the data as it sees it being 6-7 hours in the future/past, for example) but I haven't played with this yet. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
p.s. +1 for universal analytics! https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-28052
EDIT: I discovered there's a timezone setting in the preferences of the sakai app (accessed using your browser), as well as a "server" time displayed in the footer, both are using the correct time, so perhaps it's not that??
I set this up anayltics to test on https://qa10.longsight.com and with the sample properties on that jira it didn't work. I changed the domain to just the domain and I did get realtime stats.
For example the following did NOT work
portal.google.analytics_domain=https://qa10.longsight.com
But this did
portal.google.analytics_domain=qa10.longsight.com
This is the result from viewing it in two browsers.
I'm implementing google analytics experiment in my website. There are certain queries and doubts I have. Please have a look:
Can we implement two experiment with a same page at a time ? Because to doing this, I'll have to put two experiment code in my original script and its giving me some warnings.
My case is I want to implement A/B Test Variation on two button (iOS App Download and Android App Download) at my website landing page. For this, I've create two goals for each button (Goals are linked with events that I've placed with both button clicked events).
Now for experiment, I've created experiment and selected goal and placed the experiment code at appropriate place.
What about 2nd experiment for other goal ? and how should I create it ?
I hope you clear my concern.
Below is one warning I'm getting while creating one experiment:
Note: Two experiment variations do not appear in the table. More information
The following 2 experiment variations have had no sessions.
I've checked url and everything, but not getting any clue.
Please suggest.
Thanks.
I don't fully understand the warning and the structure of your experiments, but in general you shouldn't create 2 experiments for the same page through the "normal" experiments panel.
For this kind of situations, it is much better to use the Google Content Experiments API (Client-side or Server-side). It is a little more difficult to configure, but allows for several tests in the same page, among other advantages.
If you don't want to do this "complex" configuration, you could use some paid solution like Optimizely or VWO (they include multivariate tests, which could be better for your use case than A/B tests).