How to track promotions with Google Analytics 4 ecommerce

Updated: December 11th, 2025 Promotions are banners or popups that you can show on your ecommerce site to promote certain sales or special offers. The idea here is that visitors will be incentivized by the offers on these banners and popups to make a purchase. Promotions are helpful to increase user activity, but how can […]
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How to use Funnel Exploration Report in Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

Updated: December 9th, 2025 The only good funnel reports in older Google Analytics versions were related to Enhanced Ecommerce (I am talking about the Shopping and Checkout behavior). The others were mediocre at best. With the rise of GA4, Google attempted to fix this issue by providing a Funnel Exploration report. It allows you to build […]
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Content Groups in Google Analytics 4

Updated: December 4th, 2025 Have you ever explored the pages on your site and felt like you could not get the insights you needed because the data was too granular? To better understand your data, it may seem necessary to export your page-level data into another tool and use regular expressions (or another method) to […]
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3 Ways to Pull Data from Data Layer with Google Tag Manager

Updated: December 4th, 2025 The data layer is the foundation on which Google Tag Manager relies heavily. It ensures maximum flexibility, portability, and ease of implementation. In my other blog post, I have explained how it works and how you can get the most out of it. However, not all aspects were covered there. Since […]
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Google Analytics 4 Audiences (GA4 Audiences) – How to use them?

Updated: December 4th, 2025 When analyzing your data with Google Analytics 4 and comparing different subsets, you have features like segments, audiences, and comparisons. For new GA4 users, this might be confusing because each feature has some similarities but significant differences. In this blog post, we will look closely at Google Analytics 4 audiences: what they […]
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How to import Meta ad cost data to Google Analytics 4?

Many advertisers run paid campaigns on Meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram, but one big limitation is that by default, Meta’s ad cost data doesn’t automatically show up in Google Analytics 4. This makes it harder to calculate ROI or compare Meta performance with other channels. Fortunately, GA4 offers a campaign data import feature that […]
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How to Preserve Ad Click IDs with Server-side Tagging

Updated: November 28th, 2025 With the announcement of iOS 26, Apple announced that it will be expanding Link Tracking Protection. For those who don’t know, Link Tracking Protection is by default enabled in Safari’s Private Browsing Mode. It’s responsible for removing various tracking parameters from the page URL (e.g., gclid), which makes it difficult to […]
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Google Analytics 4 Explorations: a Complete Guide

Updated: November 28th, 2025 Google Analytics 4 may not hold its strength in the built-in standard reports that it provides, but it does make up for it with its Explorations feature. Google Analytics 4 explorations allow you to dive deeper into your data to get insights through customizable and interactive reports tailored to your business […]
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Total users vs Active users vs New users in Google Analytics 4

Updated: November 28th, 2025 In Google Analytics 4, understanding your user metrics is key to measuring the success of your website or app. These metrics include Total, Active, New, and Returning users. You’ve likely come across all these metrics while exploring your data in GA4, and if you’ve wondered, “What is the difference between Total […]
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Page Path vs Page URL in Google Tag Manager

Updated: November 28th, 2025 If you’re just starting with web tracking and have no prior technical knowledge of the web, you might be confused about which Page variables (in Google Tag Manager) to use and when. Questions like “what is the difference between Page Path and Page URL?” might be pretty common. That’s why I’ve […]
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