7 Ways to Track Form Submissions in Google Analytics 4

Updated: September 14th, 2023 If you use Google Analytics (GA) to analyze web traffic on your site, you may also want to track contact form submissions, right?  A question I hear frequently is “can I track form submissions in GA?”. The answer is yes, and I’ll show you how. To make Google Analytics form tracking […]
Julius Fedorovicius
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GTAG vs Analytics.js

When you want to install Google Analytics on your website, one of the options is to add its code directly to your website. That JavaScript library is called gtag.js (a.k.a. global site tag). But what if you are working with an older project and you see that the GA code it’s using is not gtag.js? […]
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Track Conversions Once per Session in Google Analytics 4

Updated: May 17th, 2023 In Universal Analytics, a goal (a.k.a. conversion) was counted once per session. If a visitor completes the same goal multiple times during the same session, it will be counted only once. In Google Analytics 4, on the other hand, conversions are tracked every time they occur (regardless of whether it’s the […]
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How to Rename a Report in Google Analytics 4?

If you customize a standard report in Google Analytics 4 (e.g. by changing the default primary dimension), there’s a chance that the report’s name will be automatically changed too. And this might be inconvenient in some situations. That’s why in this quick blog post, I will show you how to rename a report in Google Analytics […]
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Broken Monetization Report in Google Analytics 4. Here’s the fix.

Here’s an unpleasant surprise in Google Analytics 4. You mind your business and accidentally stumble upon the Monetization > Ecommerce purchases report. Normally, it should display your most popular products and how many times they were displayed, added to the cart, purchased, etc. But now it’s empty and just shows a red exclamation mark. You […]
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Link Google Search Console with Google Analytics 4

Updated: January 21st, 2023 If you are using Google Search Console and Google Analytics 4, you can connect them. As a result, some search console data will become available in Google Analytics 4. In this blog post, I will describe how to link Google Search Console with Google Analytics 4, where you can find that […]
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How to Remove FBCLID from Google Analytics 4?

When I am writing this blog post, Google Analytics 4 does not have a native method to easily remove unwanted URL query parameters. As a result, your reports might look something like this: See all those fbclid=xxxx? They make your reports harder to read, and if the same page was visited by multiple users from […]
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Introducing Google Analytics 4 Community

4 years ago, I launched a Google Tag Manager community on Facebook and now it has tens of thousands of members. The community is active and people are helping each other. That’s awesome to see! But here’s the thing. That group is only for Google Tag Manager questions. Since the number of GA4 questions (where GTM […]
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