How to Get Google Analytics Client ID? (5 Options)

Updated: March 28th, 2025 Let’s say that you are running Google Analytics on your website, and you (or your developers) need to fetch the GA Client ID. For example, maybe there is a need to send a request to the Measurement Protocol (which requires a client_id parameter). Or do you just want to check your own client ID? […]
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Track email campaigns in Google Analytics 4

Updated: March 28th, 2025 Google Analytics (and many other similar tools) cannot track email campaigns by default. So how can you know which emails are driving most of the traffic and conversions to your business? Additional configuration is needed. In this article, I will explain all you need to know to track email campaigns in […]
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How to build custom reports in Google Analytics 4

Updated: March 28th, 2025 In the older versions of Google Analytics, there was a section in Customization > Custom Reports where you could build custom reports. Things have changed in Google Analytics 4 with the introduction of Explorations. In today’s blog post, I will explain how to build custom reports in Google Analytics 4 with Explorations by […]
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Exclude URL Query Parameters in Google Analytics 4

Updated: March 28th, 2025 In Universal Analytics (GA3), a feature called “Exclude URL query parameters” allowed you to remove unwanted parameters from the URLs and have cleaner reports. When I wrote this blog post, this feature was not available by default in Google Analytics 4 (there’s data redaction, but it’s not a complete replacement for […]
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Regex in Google Analytics 4 (Regular Expressions)

Have you opened Google Analytics 4, seen the term “regex” and thought to yourself, “What’s that?” If yes, this article is for you! Even if you have worked with regex (regular expressions) before, there may be something new for you to learn here, too. Regular expressions are special sequences of characters used to find, extract, […]
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Missing Demographic Data in Google Analytics 4? Here are the reasons

Updated: March 27th, 2025 Google Analytics 4 reports have a section called Demographics that provides insights into your audiences, such as their age or gender. But it’s pretty common (especially among GA4 beginners) that those reports have no data. Why? Let me explain. In this article, we’ll explore possible reasons why you have missing demographic data in Google […]
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Key event rate in Google Analytics 4

Google Analytics has a weird relationship with conversions. In older versions, they were called goals. Then, they were renamed to conversions in GA4 (which is an industry-known term). But later, they renamed them to key events. So, if you were looking for something like “Google Analytics 4 conversion rate”, the correct term now is “Google […]
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