Subdomain Tracking with Google Analytics 4

Updated: January 5th, 2026 If you are working with a business that operates on multiple subdomains (e.g., blog.business.com, support.business.com, www.business.com, etc.), you will most likely want to track website visitors with Google Analytics 4 across all these websites. In Google Analytics 4, subdomain tracking works automatically right out of the box. As long as you use […]
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How to Track Custom Events with Google Analytics 4

Updated: January 5th, 2026 Google Analytics 4 has a steep learning curve. In one of my previous blog posts, I explained how GA4 event tracking works in general. But if you understand the basics of Google Analytics 4 and want to dive deeper into custom event tracking, you’ve come to the right place. A custom […]
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How to Track File Downloads with Google Analytics 4 (including PDF)

Updated: January 4th, 2026 If you’re running a website where people can click and open/download files (like PDF or Excel Spreadsheets), you would probably want to know which links are clicked the most and whether your visitors/users care about those resources. Maybe that document you spent countless hours on last year was clicked just 10 […]
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Unassigned in Google Analytics 4 (and how to fix it)

Updated: January 4th, 2026 You open the Traffic Acquisition reports in Google Analytics 4 and see a mysterious Unassigned. In Google Analytics 4, “Unassigned” is the default channel group for traffic that GA4 cannot categorize into any of its other predefined channels, like “Organic Search” or “Paid Social.” This often happens when the source, medium, or […]
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Path Exploration report in Google Analytics 4

Updated: January 3rd, 2026 Exploration reports in Google Analytics 4 are a suite of features that allow you to dive deeper into your data. In the past, I have explained how to work with Free Form reports and Funnel Exploration. This time, let’s look at another type of report, Path Exploration. In the older versions of […]
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Conversion rate in Google Analytics 4

Updated: January 3rd, 2026 Important: Conversion rate has been renamed to Key event rate. You can learn more about it here. ===== When Google Analytics 4 was introduced, it was missing one very important metric many people relied on in GA3, conversion rate (CR). Even though we could see the total number of conversions, that was not […]
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How to Setup and Install Google Analytics 4 (3 ways)

Updated: January 2nd, 2026 If you want to measure the performance of your website, you must use some web analytics tool. Google Analytics 4 is one of them. It allows you to see the number of sessions, visitors, most popular traffic sources, etc. But to get that, first, you need to install GA4 on a […]
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How to Track Clicks with Google Analytics 4 (2 Options)

Updated: January 2nd, 2026 If you are starting to get a grip on Google Tag Manager, click tracking is probably one of the most demanded things you want to implement. Your website has many clickable elements, and you want to understand how website visitors interact with them. In this blog post, we will look at […]
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