I've created a Custom Data Uploader script
which is uploading data to my google analytics profile.
I can see it's working and its uploading the file. I can see it on the "Custom Definitions" Tab in the Profile page. (Second picture on the link I attached).
But I cant see the data on the reports.
I tried to look under Traffic Sources -> Overview, it should be there from what I thought.
Where can I find this data in the reports?
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/platform/features/cost-data-import
The Traffic Sources > Cost Analysis report should contain your data, but it can take 12 hours for the data on a new feed to show up. However, I've found that subsequent loads are usually much faster.
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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.
I have setup a new Google Analytics 4 property and have enabled enhanced tracking, which records all downloads automatically. When using Google Data Studio, I can see 'file_download' events (so it's definitely working) and use this data to build my report.
I need to create a report that shows which files were downloaded each month for a specific page only. It's really easy to get the total number of downloads which occurred on that page, however, I can't for the life of me find any way to report what the destination URL or file name was.
According to the Analytics support pages, the event has a number of useful parameters (file_extension, file_name, link_classes, link_domain, link_id, link_text, link_url), however, I can't see any related options for these in the Data Studio reports.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. At this point, I'm almost tempted to disable the automatic tracking and do it all manually via Tag Manager again.
It is possible create reports with the useful parameters. However, you need to register the parameters in Google Analytics first.
To register the customer dimensions, navigate to "All events", click "Manage Custom Definitions", and add custom dimensions for each parameter. This article goes through the details of registering custom dimensions: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/10075209?hl=en. In this example, I've registered three dimensions (one for each parameter):
Once the dimensions are registered, Google Analytics will record the dimensions going forward. You should be able to create reports on these dimensions in Data Studio the next day. Here's the example reports:
I have a nice dashboard view with charts i wanted in google analytics. some of them are "sessions by traffic sources" and "sessions by device category".
All i want is to bring these charts into one page in google data studio, but i cant find anything about sessions or traffic sources under dimensions or metrics.They use the same database so why cant i find the same data in both software?
I get so many "Available fields" but they're all irrelevant to what I want to display
You're trying to edit your fields at too basic a level. The list of fields you're seeing when you add Google Analytics as a data source is ALL GA dimensions and metrics. Just click to add it as a data source, you do not want to try editing or choosing your dimensions and metrics at this point. Once you've connected the data source, you have all GA dimensions and metrics available to you, and you can just pick out what you want each table or chart to use from them.
I have a website that using google analytics for statistics.
I want to show my top posts in last month in my blog.
Can I have an output of its in rss or xml format?
I am familiar with two ways of making this happen.
You could implement the Google Analytics API and export the data in the desired format
You could schedule exports of that data in CSV format and have it sent to an email inbox. Then either manually or through some automated routine, pull the CSV attachment and publish it to your site.
I hope this helps get you going.
I took the code from the google-analytics website and put it right before the closing body tag like the instructions say to do and changed the xxxxx-x value from the profile page in the code.
I uploaded the new index file and refreshed the page a few times and have yet to get a single hit on it and I'm kind of curious as to why this might be? Any ideas?
You won't see analytics data in realtime. Google is working towards that, but there is a lag in showing traffic:
See this Google Help page:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Analytics/thread?tid=450ae99d8e40bfaf&hl=en
"Hi, Google Analytics has a current time lag for standard tracking of about 1-2 hours - so it's almost real-time (do you really want to check your analytics data every 10 minutes?). Switch to the current day in your calender and refer to the hourly reports - for example the Visitors/Visitor Trending/Visits/Graph by Hour report - to verify that."