Google Analytics 4 Tutorial for Beginners

Updated: October 23rd, 2025 Compared to the previous versions, GA4 is a completely revamped platform. New interface, new tag template in Google Tag Manager, new data model, new steps to configure, etc. This raises many questions: where to get started? What should be the optimal setup? If you are unsure how to get started, you’ve […]
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How to Find Search Terms in Google Analytics 4?

Updated: October 22nd, 2025 If your website has a site search feature, you probably want to know what people are looking for. That’s where Google Analytics can help. While Google Analytics 4 tracks site search automatically via Enhanced Measurement, finding the actual search terms isn’t always straightforward. The data might seem hidden in standard reports […]
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Scroll tracking with Google Analytics 4 (GA4 Scroll Depth Tracking)

Updated: October 17th, 2025 Compared to previous versions, Google Analytics 4 offers more built-in tracking capabilities. This includes file downloads, outbound clicks, scroll tracking, and more. But did you know that the built-in scroll tracking in Google Analytics 4 tracks only when someone scrolls below the 90% percent mark of the page height? What if […]
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Conversion rate in Google Analytics 4

Updated: October 17th, 2025 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 Track File Downloads with Google Analytics 4 (including PDF)

Updated: October 16th, 2025 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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Subdomain Tracking with Google Analytics 4

Updated: October 15th, 2025 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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Cross-domain tracking in Google Analytics 4

Updated: October 14th, 2025 If you are familiar with cross-domain tracking in UA, you probably know that most of the configuration is done either on the code level (e.g., in gtag.js) or in GTM (GA tags). Because of that, many marketers and web analysts were confused about what to do and where. Luckily, in Google Analytics 4, […]
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A Guide to UTM Parameters in Google Analytics 4

Updated: October 9th, 2025 UTM parameters are short text codes you add to a URL to track the performance of marketing campaigns in Google Analytics 4. By tagging your links with parameters for source, medium, and campaign, you can accurately measure which emails, social media posts, or ads are most effective at driving traffic and […]
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Top 22 Benefits of Google Analytics 4

Updated: August 28th, 2025 When people talk about Google Analytics 4, they often compare it to its predecessor, Universal Analytics. How is GA4 better? Why should I use it? If you have similar questions in mind, this blog post is exactly what you need. In it, I will walk you through the top benefits of […]
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No data available in Google Analytics 4? Here are the solutions

Updated: August 5th, 2025 You’ve installed Google Analytics 4 on your website, waited for a while, and still don’t see any data. Understandably, you are frustrated. There are a few different reasons for that. So, if you have been googling for something like “no data available in Google Analytics 4”, you’ve come to the right […]
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