Every now and then, the Analytics Canvas team will go over the features that our users – you guys! – frequently use. And, what we find is that it is often the case the majority of you will use just a small number of the features available to you. Now, this hurts our developers’ feelings! They think it’s rather a …
Segments are awesome but Google Analytics only lets you compare 4 at a time in the web interface. Now Analytics Canvas lets you query as many advanced segments as you want all at once. This article is for Universal Analytics and the Reporting API V4. For GA4, the Data API does not contain segments, however our GA4 BigQuery SQL Editor …
Using Analytics Canvas and Google BigQuery, it is possible to do detailed content analysis for sites with 10s of millions of annual visitors, even with Google Analytics Standard. In this blog post we outline how to avoid sampling and load detailed content analysis data into BigQuery. Analytics Canvas provides the solution. Google Analytics Premium obviously gives you many more options …
Working with multiple Google Analytics accounts, properties and views in Analytics Canvas If you have multiple Google Analytics accounts, profiles and views under your Google account, you may find your way deep into an analysis on one set of profiles and decide that you want to replicate the analysis for other accounts and profiles. Other times you simply want to …
In the Google Analytics API, there are two important ways to focus in on a particular slice of your analytics data. Segments and filters. In many cases, the result of these two very different functions are the same. But they are fundamentally different, and it is important to understand how they work particularly when looking deep into your data using …