I have a Google docs spreadsheet with some maps api calls as follows:
=NOEXPAND(importXML("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/xml?origin="&$A2&"&destination="&I$1&"&sensor=false";"/DirectionsResponse/route/leg/duration/text|/DirectionsResponse/route/leg/distance/text" ))
I have ten of these formulas in my spreadsheet. (I used to have more, but I took some out because I read somewhere the limit per second was 10).
It was working fine yesterday and this morning, but now I'm getting an OVER_QUERY_LIMIT error. I'm not making more than 25,000 calls a day, not even close. And not I'm not making more than 10 per second.
Any ideas why this stopped working???
Could it be something with it being on google docs and other people using the api in there documents it all counts as coming from the same location?
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I'm using the Google-Analytics API to query my analytics for data using the Google Analytics Spreadsheet Add-on We then use the spreadsheet data in Google Data studio for a dashboard to display the data.
Everything has been going well for the last few months, however over the last 48 hours we have begun to receive sampled data when we query the API using the spreadsheet add on. This is undesirable for how we are using the data.
The total results that we were getting before being returned was about 1100 results. We have altered the date range of the query to be only 3 days whereas before we were querying since the start of the year.
Initially that worked and the results were no longer sampled. Then 24 hours later the data appears to be sampled again.
The documentation says the following regarding sampling for the free account:
Analytics Standard: 500k sessions at the view level for the date range you are using
We are not using our analytics that heavily so I cannot understand why we would have hit the 500K limit?
It is also not clear to me what a "View Level" is? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Am I able to push real time data from google analytics to google spreadsheet via google analytics add-on? (I know that it is possible via Google Analytics API)
It is pretty hard to prove a negative but no, you cannot do this from within the interface, you'd need the Google Analytics Realtime API.
I am not convinced that this is really useful. Realtime data is not aggregated, so you'd get a lot of rows really fast (and since a Google spreadsheet holds 2 mio cells at most you'd have to empty or swap the spreadsheet regularly).
Since this is basically raw data you could just as well set up a small apps script like in this gist that writes request data to a spreadsheet, publish this as web app and create a small image pixel within your page that sends data directly to the sheet (but you will not have channel attribution). I expanded a bit on that idea here.
I have two view/profiles linked to my google analytics account. I want to fetch the hourly data for the current day, ie
start date:today
end date: today
with a few filters and dimensions.
Now I am getting the response for one view that means it is possible in google analytics, however for the other view its showing all the values as 0- this applies both to the gui and the api.
Can anyone suggest me how to enable it for the other view as well?
You cannot. Google Analytics needs some processing time. It might be that some data appears immediately, especially on small accounts, but it's not guaranteed and not a thing you can "enable" or count on.
Updated: Okay, that was a dumb answer. Still, there is a processing latency event in GA Premium. It is possible to get realtime data, but that's a different API with limited data (the core reporting API might return data, but no guarantees for that).
But I admit, since your problem is that you do not get data for the whole day yor have a different problem. But with a premium account you should be able to contact your account manager/technical support.
I've been using a SSIS Integration component to download data from Google Analytics in order to keep an historical view of some websites and track the evolution of them. Basically the metrics we track are Visits (now Sessions) and Visitros (now Users), and the dimensions are Year and Month. However, today I noticed that the data I downloaded for july had a variation on the Users metric. I heard that google analytics uses an estimation method to "calculate" some (if not all) of their metrics, could it be that after that they "adjust" the data with more acurate information? If so, is this mentioned in the documentation? (a link would be highly appreciated) Since the users are complaining that we are not delivering the real GA Data. I tried looked on the Google analytics documentation page with no luck.
Thanks for your time.
PS: Sorry for my english, it isn´t my native language
If you are using the standard version of Google Analytics (you'll know if you are paying $150k for premium), data is sampled depending on volume. Have a read of this article can-you-trust-your-google-analytics-data
I have seen very slightly differing results being returned if you repeatedly call the api with the same historical parameters repeatedly. In my case the figures only differed by 1-2 over a daily set of several thousand, but nevertheless it differed.
If you want to guarantee your results, consider upgrading to premium
Sampling could be an issue if what you are requesting is over 50,000 rows for the time period you are requesting. To avoid it you can download more often, such as daily.
But I think your issue is that there is a processing time for Google Analytics - if you are downloading at 3 am on the 1st it is probable that the processing for the previous day has not finished.
Google Analytics Premium SLA is for 4 hour data freshness, so even that would have trouble. Pragmatically you should allow 24 hours before you download data for the previous day, 48 hours for e-commerce data.
Thirdly make sure it is not Unique Visitors you are requesting, as this is dependent on the time period you are requesting.
I am looking for a way, how can I grab some statistics from Google Universal Analytics to my site? Is there any way to display users statistics on site, grabbing from Analytics like below?
Example:
Users today: 10
Week: 70
Month:270
Total: 1500
I found a couple of information from Google, but was not suitable to this topic. All finding results were about old Google Analytics( without upgrading to Universal) and were displaying all statistic results, including Charts.
You can us the Google analytics API to get the stats you are looking for. You will probably end up doing 3 different requests, because of the fact that the request is made by dates. You will have a problem getting the correct count for Today and yesterday, because the Google Analytics data hasn't finished processing yet it normally takes 24 - 48 hours for the numbers to be correct.
Becouse of the fact that you are only looking to see your own data I recommend you look into using service account for authentication.