Universal Analytics
Martech Zone articles tagged universal analytics:
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Analytics & Testing
How To Back-Up And Report On Universal Analytics Historical Data With GA4?
As a product manager who has worked with several enterprise companies, I personally believe Google’s shift from Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) has been one of the worst I’ve ever seen. There are several reasons why…but here are the biggest gaffs: Historical Data – Google Analytics Universal was retired in July 2023, and you can only access…
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Analytics & Testing
Keep Track Of Your Campaigns and Build Your UTM Querystring in Google Sheets (Free Copy)
We’ve been assisting a large e-commerce client with migrating to Google Analytics 4 from Universal Analytics and improving their campaign attribution to ensure they have accurate reporting on each of the mediums and channels they’re putting to use, including influencers. The best means of doing this is to ensure every distributed link to their online store has a UTM querystring…
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Analytics & Testing
How To Migrate Events From Universal Analytics To Google Analytics 4
I’m not too confident in Google Analytics 4 despite the buzz being passed by the Google Analytics team. Companies have spent millions of dollars to enhance and integrate their sites, platforms, campaigns, events, and other measurement data within Universal Analytics only to find that it doesn’t automatically work within Google Analytics 4. Events are no different… It’s disappointing that Google…
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Martech Zone Apps
App: Google Analytics Campaign UTM Querystring Builder
Utilize this tool to build your Google Analytics Campaign URL. The form validates your URL, includes logic on whether it already has a querystring within it, and adds all of the appropriate UTM variables: utm_id, utm_campaign, utm_source, utm_medium, and optional utm_term and utm_content. Target URL: Required: Valid URL including https:// with domain, page, and optional querystring ID: Optional: Use to…
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Analytics & Testing
Universal Analytics Behavior Reports: More Useful Than You Realize!
Google Analytics provides us with a multitude of important data for improving our web performance. Unfortunately, we don’t always possess the extra time to study this data and turn it into something useful. Most of us need an easier and faster way to examine relevant data for developing better websites. That’s precisely where Google Analytics Behavior reports come in. With…
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Analytics & Testing
How to Install Google Tag Manager and Universal Analytics
We’ve been converting clients over to Google Tag Manager recently. If you’ve not heard of tag management yet, we’ve written an in-depth article, What is Tag Management? – I’d encourage you to read through it. What is a Tag? A tag is a snippet of code that sends information to a third party, such as Google. If you don’t use a…
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Analytics & Testing
Why You Should Upgrade to Google Universal Analytics
Let’s get this question out of the way now. Should you upgrade to Google’s new Universal Analytics? Yes. In fact, you have most likely already been upgraded to Universal Analytics. But, just because Google updated your account for you, it doesn’t mean you don’t have to do anything else or that you are getting the most out of your new Universal…