I'm trying to upgrade my google analytics account to universal analytics. In the admin-panel in google analytics there is suppose to be a button in the property–column, but there isn't. When I'm looking at the tracking code, it suggests that I use ga.js, suggesting that I still use the old version of google analytics. Why is this?
Could be that they haven't enabled it for your account, or you have doubleclick support enabled on your profile -- if that is checked, then you won't see the Upgrade.
Do you have a premium account? Google Analytics doesn't support the new tracking on premium accounts.
Source: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/upgrade/
I've just recently encountered this issue. It seems as though today they've made it available and taken it out of beta. Try logging into your Account> Property >Admin and you should see the option to begin the transfer.
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I'm trying to figure out how to tag my google workspace marketplace listing to track pageviews, downloads, etc. with Google Analytics (GA4).
The app page is currently setup for Universal Analytics (UA) which is being depricated on 12/31. I have tried following the setup instructions in Google Analytics for GA4, but the setup manager is not carrying over the tag used for UA.
How do you go about setting up the new tag for GA4 so we can keep getting insights on pageviews for our app listing?
I tried following the setup instrustions in Google Analytics for transitioning from UA to GA4 and was expecting the tag to carry over to the new analytics format. Instead, I am being told to re-tag the website and am not sure how to do that for a google workspace marketplace app listing.
I'm experiencing the exact same problem and found this issuetracker article, which doesn't sound hopeful (short version: GA4 doesn't appear supported by marketplace - only legacy UA is supported)
Google recently released Analytics version 4. When I create an Analytics account and try to link it in Google Optimize the Analytics account is not visible in the list of available Analytics account. Anyone know's why?
The reason is because Google Optimize does not support Google Analytics V. 4. Nowhere do they mention that. You need to create a "Create a Universal Analytics property" account to make it work
I'm trying to find a web site/resource that has a working demo of Google Analytics to use.
As I have no website etc to be able to link my Analytics account to, I have no way of reviewing/learning to use Google Analytics.
Is anyone aware of such a demo available to the public?
Are you're asking for is a site where you can see GA working?
Years ago I set up 3 unusual but extremely effective GA learning sites mainly for myself (so they are crude).
I still use 2 of them today with Real Time reporting and Chrome extensions dataSlayer & WASP.
They accept your own Web Property ID (UA-xxxxx.yy) and save it in a cookie so the data goes into your own account.
Captures data to be sent to GA.
It's currently at http://cyclonal.com.
It still uses Classic GA (_gaq) - any offers to upgrade it to Universal gladly accepted
I also cloned a site used by the GA Dev team's (with permission)
It tested almost every feature of GA at the time.
Which is at http://cyclonal.com/g (has a history of the site link in the footer)
Finally, and probably what you may want to clone/create yourself, is a free form version of the concepts behind the above sites at http://cyclonal.com/sandbox/codeExec
Let me know if that works for you.
Google team released a Google Analytics demo account: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6367342?hl=en#access You can start "playing" with this account to get familiarized with google analytics api!
I have a client that runs a number of sites and I manage some of them. They are a large company so they have had a premium Google Analytics account for some time, likely because another project requested it and it was upgraded across the board.
Enter me, one project we are working on is improving the data we track in GA. Step one of my plan was to upgrade to analytics.js & the new universal tracking code and to add ecommerce tracking. Seemed simple enough, I've already done it for other clients.
Well I just discovered that premium account can not use the new universal tracking code. Insane move by Google IMO, I don't understand who signed off on giving free accounts a feature that premium accounts don't have access to but alas it is what it is. Source: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/upgrade/
I'm wondering what the best course of action is. Ideas:
Use the "old" method using ga.js--annoying because I'll have to rewrite everything once Google turns on support for premium accounts, I enjoy double the billable hours but would rather be more efficient
Downgrade part of the account--huge headaches here too, presumably whoever wanted premium to begin with will continue wanting it. Don't think I can seperate out only my projects without losing all past data.
Something else that will solve my problem? I'm hoping there's a plan I've overlooked.
Have you thought about implementing Google Tag Manager? By using GTM, you could
create a new universal analytics (analytics.js) account
create a google tag manager account
create a staging environment and add GTM to that
add both your ga.js and analytics.js accounts to GTM
QA and push to production
When analytics.js comes out of beta and is enabled for premium, simply do the migration and move your ga.js tracking code over to the analytic.js tags you've already setup.
I've written about the benefits of using dual-tagging using google tag manager in a blog post, but I think it's your best bet for not having to redo your implementation.
I'm having trouble with google analytics e-commerce report: I see that about one-third of transactions are not tracked including my personal orders. I use ga_debugger to find the problem. In ga_debugger console, it is reported that:
"Aborting cookie write: User has opted out of tracking".
I just have no idea about this report. Any suggestion would be helpful.
It means the visitor opted out of being tracked. Read the Google Analytics Privacy Policy for details on how visitors can do this, particularly the Privacy Controls section.
Check to see if the Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on is enabled.
In Chrome, go to Settings... , Extensions...
If you see this Add-on, uncheck the Enabled box or remove the Add-on entirely.