Friday, February 17, 2023

navigating the new Google Analytics 4 reports

Navigating the new analytics.google.com - takes a bit of getting used to.

  • A tour shows us the location of the main navigation elements.

  • Typing "tour" in the search box brings up some tours.

  • We can add the tracking code to subdomains also, no problems with tracking. So I deleted the separate property I had created for a subdomain from Admin --> Property Settings (of the relevant property) --> Move to Trash Can button (on the top right) as per
    https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1042032?hl=en
     
  • We can access the tracking code from Admin --> Property Settings --> Data Streams --> Click on the relevant domain or stream --> View tag instructions (at the bottom of the page).

  • We can find stats for a particular page from Reports --> Engagement --> Pages and screens.

  • We're able to see stats of pages 
    (a) based on the page title and not based on the page domain - subdomain.ourdomain.org returns no results

    (b) based on the path excluding the domain name - /ourfoldername or index.php or index_new.php does show up.


    But for these, we have to change the drop-down accordingly, as in the screenshots below -
    For search based on page title - 




    For search based on page path -







    And it also seems to be a bit buggy - Searching for program gives only 2 results, while searching for  /program gives many results, and searching for program/ gives the 4 results we want.




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