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How Google Analytics Decides Attribution Tracking
One of the more opaque things about Google Analytics is understanding how the software processes various types of tracking codes. If we don’t know how Google Analytics interprets the different kinds of tracking that it uses for attribution, then we may not be able to explain changes in our analytics data.

The Importance of Good Tracking

Why do we care about Google Analytics tracking? For one straightforward reason: attribution. We want to know what’s working, and the only way to know what’s working is if we’re tracking everything we’re doing. For example, if we look at the multi-touch attribution model from my website using Google Analytics data, we see the following:

When we’ve got everything set up correctly, when our tracking codes are working, when we leave as little to chance as possible, we understand our marketing. We understand what’s working, what’s not working, and we can match our results to our efforts. Above, this model looks at the last 3 months of conversions on my site, by channel, using a multi-touch model. How much time and effort should I put into, say, YouTube? The answer is pretty clear: YouTube didn’t make the top 25 sources of converting traffic, so the amount of time I should put into it is minimal.

If you want proper attribution, you must have proper tracking. To understand proper tracking in Google Analytics, we should know how Google Analytics processes its data. So let’s explore the order of operations to see how this sheds light on common marketing analytics practices.

Basic Rules of Google Analytics Processing

There are two basic rules to Google Analytics tracking, when it comes to various tracking methods:
1. Paid overrules unpaid.
2. Known overrules unknown.
Generally speaking, paid traffic always overrules unpaid traffic. If I go to SomeWebsite.com from a Google Ad and then I type in SomeWebsite.com a few minutes later (within the session timeout window), my session will still be attributed to the Google Ad.

The same is true if I click to SomeWebsite.com from, say, Blog.com. Blog.com is a known referrer. If I type SomeWebsite.com (or click from an untagged, unknown source like an improperly tagged email) within the session timeout window, Blog.com will still be the attributed source and medium for that session.

The Google Analytics Order of Operations

Based on the documentation here, Google Analytics has a clear, defined order of operations. Let’s step through it.

The first stage of processing is the campaigns stage, and there are three kinds of tags, usually in the URL or measurement protocol hits: GCLIDs, campaign tags, and UTM tags.

First, if there’s a GCLID – a Google Ads ID – available, Google Analytics reads that and stops processing; no further attribution is needed, and Google Ads gets the credit for any conversions that take place from that session in a last-touch model.

If there’s no GCLID, but campaign tags are available – campaign source, campaign medium, and campaign, then the paid channel associated with those campaign tags is given credit.

If there’s no GCLID or campaign tags, but UTM tags are available – UTM source, medium, campaign, keyword, content – and source is specified (which is the only required field), Google will use that for attribution. Note that we recommend as a general best practice to always specify source AND medium, otherwise you end up with a lot of (not set) in your medium-based reporting.

It’s important to note here that if your UTM tracking code is malformed – you type utm_soucre rather than utm_source, for example – Google Analytics will NOT attempt to interpret the rest and will simply assign it to direct / none. That’s bad news, so make sure you use some kind of UTM builder utility so your UTM tracking codes are always correct.

This is the end of the campaigns stage. The second stage is the traffic sources stage, Google’s guessing stage, and this is where a lot of attribution goes off the rails, because Google is guessing, rather than us specifying where something came from.

If there’s a referring source available (a referring URL) and Google identifies it as a known search engine, then the source is set to the identified search engine and the medium is set to organic.

If there’s a referring source available that isn’t a search engine, but Google identifies it as a known social network, then the source is set to the identified social network. Note that many social networks send data in strange URLs that Google doesn’t necessarily know, so a lot of times, social media traffic is identified incorrectly, at least in GA 3.

If there’s a referring source available that isn’t any of the above, Google sets the source as the referring source and the medium as referral.

If there’s no referring source available, but Google knows who the user is and the user has come to the website from an existing campaign (steps 1-3 above) previously, Google assigns the source and medium to the last known session’s source and medium, as long as it’s within the campaign timeout window.

Finally, if Google has nothing else to work with, it assigns the data to the dreaded (direct)/(none) source medium. This is what we want to avoid at all costs, because it means we have no idea where a visitor came from or what they did.

Key Takeaways

The most important thing to take away from all this is you never want any off-site link (ads, guest blog posts, etc.) to lack UTM tracking codes if possible. When you publish an external link back to your website without tracking codes, you force Google Analytics to guess where the traffic came from, and as you can see from the flowchart above, Google Analytics may not guess correctly.

Remember our mnemonic: UTM is short for yoU Tell Me. Google Analytics wants us to tell it where traffic is coming from if we know. Don’t make GA guess: if you’re putting a link to your website on someone else’s website (which includes social media, in-app links, etc. – ANY link that isn’t on your website), put UTM tracking codes on it.

Second, never, ever put UTM tracking codes on internal links (links from your site to another page on your site), because that will overwrite any existing tracking data. Just don’t do it.

With proper tracking, our analytics quality improves. With improved quality, we draw better insights and make better decisions. Get started today by cleaning up your tracking and using UTM codes as much as you can for every link not on your website.

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July 29, 2021
The Power of Analogy in Marketing Communications
One of the most powerful tools at our disposal for demystifying complex subjects is the analogy. When we work with analogies, from simple comparisons to skeuomorphic design (digital designs that mimic real world objects), we help people learn faster, retain information better and longer, and reduce confusion.

So, why don’t we use these tools more often? I suspect the answer is in part because we don’t fully understand the subject ourselves, so finding an apt comparison is difficult. Sometimes I’ll find myself halfway through an analogy and there’s suddenly a wide divergence between the thing I’m trying to explain and its counterpart – something I didn’t anticipate because I didn’t understand the source subject well enough. Other times, analogies don’t work because we’re comparing one confusing thing with another; referencing a niche subject (like, say, Call of Duty) falls flat if the audience doesn’t have the reference frame.

That said, we should attempt the power of analogy as often as practical. Doing so will make our communications easier, and it will enhance our own understanding of a subject. Let’s look at an example, the key metrics in web analytics. In web analytics software like Google Analytics™, we have four fundamental units of measurement:
- Events
- Pageviews
- Sessions
- Users
What’s the difference? When should you use which metric? These units of measure are basic to web analytics, but if we can’t explain them clearly to someone else, we won’t be measuring the right things. Analogies to the rescue!

Suppose you’re sitting in your favorite chair reading a physical newspaper. Some pages, you circle things with a pencil that you find interesting or that you want to remember for later. Weirdly, you tear out each sheet of the newspaper after you’ve read it and put them in a pile next to your chair. So far, so good, right?

Everything that catches your eye in the newspaper, everything that you circle – those are the equivalent of Google Analytics events. They’re little actions you take as you read that indicate you’re interested in something, and you can do one or many of them on any given page.

As you read each page, that’s the equivalent of a Google Analytics pageview. As you read a page, you’ve viewed it.

That pile of pages you clipped out as you read the paper like a weirdo? That whole pile of pages is the equivalent of a Google Analytics session. During the time you were reading your newspaper, whether it was one page or many, you made one pile of clipped pages. In Google Analytics, whether you browse one page or many on a website, for the time you’re there, that’s a session.

And you are the user, the person doing all this, whether it’s a newspaper or Google Analytics.

So, which metric should you be using? With this analogy, it’s more clear that each metric measures something different.
- If you wanted to know whether a particular item on a page was interesting or not, you’d measure events.
- If you wanted to measure just how many pages your customers browsed, perhaps to determine which pages on the website were the most popular, you’d measure pageviews.
- If you wanted to measure whether a visit to your website was productive or not in terms of conversions, regardless of how many pages the user looked at, you’d measure sessions.
- And if you wanted to know how many people did something, you’d measure users.
That analogy of a person sitting down to read the paper and clipping out pages is something you could demonstrate in person, in a meeting room or on a video call. It’s tangible, and that analogy helps clarify what web analytics metric you should be using for which context.

That’s the power of a good analogy. Instead of getting bogged down in technical stuff, you simplify it to a frame of reference that your audience understands and in doing so, you move them closer to making decisions with the right information.

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July 26, 2021
Google Analytics 4 or Bust: Lessons from Google Marketing Live 2021
At the recent Google Marketing Platform’s Google Marketing Livestream virtual event, Google previewed a bunch of changes coming to the platform as a whole, but some of the features that most stood out were:
- Customer Match: the ability to encrypt and upload your customer data lists for ad targeting purposes – will be open to everyone, not just the big spenders in Google Ads. This makes logical sense; Google controls the ad network and has identity resolution capabilities, so they don’t need cookies to know who consumers are and what ads to show consumers.
- Consented Tracking: Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager now offer consent options – aka “can we track you” popups and utilities to comply with new privacy laws. These features are available right now, so if you need them for compliance, go turn them on.
- Inferred Data: Google Ads and Google Analytics 4 will both have machine learning-powered imputation abilities to “fill in the blanks” when dealing with anonymous data that’s missing pieces, typically because someone didn’t opt-in to tracking. Google touted this especially as a solution for understanding Google Ads conversions better, but some of that behavioral imputation will be available in Google Analytics 4 in late 2021.
- Attribution Modeling: Google showed off new attribution modeling capabilities coming to both Google Ads and Google Analytics 4. It was something of a sore point that GA4 didn’t ship with any kind of reasonable attribution modeling, but it looks like it might be worth the wait; GA4 will reportedly have both standard data-driven attribution as well as incrementality modeling built in.
- Media Lift: Google Analytics 4 and Google Ads will inherit some of the Adometry modeling to incorporate the lift effects of both YouTube and Google Display Ads.
- Demand Forecasting: Google Ads will offer 90-day demand forecasting for popular, relevant topics for your ads, so you know what to watch for bid pricing and ad copy. I’m especially looking forward to this feature to see what kind of flexibility it offers and how we might be able to use it for other purposes.
- Google Ads Broad Match: using its natural language processing models like BERT and LaMDA, Google Ads’ broad match – which used to be the fastest way to waste your entire ad budget – will use those language models to deliver more relevant broad matches. Candidly, I’m surprised it took them this long to roll this out; it should be a substantial performance improvement.
- Imputation Blackouts: Google Ads and Google Analytics 4 will offer you the ability to declare time periods as anomalies in your data so they’re not factored into your machine learning models that power your data. That will clean up data-driven attribution as well as ad performance. When would you need something like this? When you do things like forget to put tracking codes on your site or other breaking changes to your analytics infrastructure.
- Incrementality Modeling: In addition to attribution modeling, incrementality modeling will let us understand the baseline of our marketing performance as well as the incremental effects of specific campaigns or efforts in Google Analytics 4 and Google Ads.
- Tighter Google Ads and Google Analytics 4 Integration: One of the demonstrated features was the new Advertising Performance center in Google Analytics 4 that will let advertisers run more detailed analysis on Google Ads performance than is currently possible in Google Ads. This continues the trend of Google positioning Google Analytics 4 as a BI tool and not a reporting engine.
Do you see the theme weaving its way through all the announcements at the event?

Google Analytics 4 is mentioned everywhere. Universal Analytics – Google Analytics 3 – was barely mentioned at all, except when announcing a new feature in GA4 that had been ported over. Google made it painfully clear that no new development is occurring on Google Analytics 3 and if we want ANY of the new features and capabilities, we MUST be running Google Analytics 4. Google’s migration strategy isn’t “we’re going to turn this old thing off” so much as it is “we’re going to put all the shiny new toys in the latest thing so you HAVE to use it”.

In one of the breakout sessions, Googlers reiterated the guidance we’ve been giving customers for more than 6 months now – turn on GA4 today, set it up, start collecting data right now even while you continue to use GA3. If you haven’t already set up GA4, now is the time. Like, today. Get it done. If you don’t want to, then have someone do it for you, but getting it in place and collecting data is a necessity if you ever want to have access to its machine learning features for dealing with missing data and upcoming privacy laws. The sooner you get it running, the more data you’ll have provided it for training when it comes time to use it as your main analytics solution.

Lots of changes are coming to marketing next year as Chrome turns off third-party cookies. Chrome has 64% of the browser market share, with Firefox and Safari (who already don’t support third-party cookies) combined being 22%. All together, 86% of the browser market will stop supporting third-party cookies next year, so the clock is ticking for all of us to implement marketing technology solutions that eliminate our dependence on third-party cookies and ad tracking. If you use any part of the Google Marketing Platform, make the necessary changes now, while you have time and space to think carefully about it and do it right.

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May 28, 2021
Google Analytics: A Content Marketing Engagement Test
Here’s a content marketing question to start your thinking: what would you assume the relationship is between average time on page and word count?

I would assume there would be a linear relationship, right? More words on a page means more time to read, so there should be a linear relationship between these two variables.

What if there wasn’t? What if that relationship didn’t exist?

For example, if you’ve got a page that’s 200 words and a page that’s 1200 words, you would expect the average time on page for the 1200 word page to be 6x longer than the time on page for the 200 word page, yes?

The absence of that relationship might indicate that you’ve got a content quality problem. Why? Because if a page is longer and people don’t stick around, then they’re not interested in what that page is about. They bail out before they read the whole thing.

A Walkthrough Example

Let’s take a look at how this might play out. I’ve loaded my blog’s Google Analytics data and a count of the words on each page into a spreadsheet, sorted by sessions in descending order. Google Analytics doesn’t have word or sentence count data, but that’s easily obtained from the SEO tool of your choice or from any good content scraping utility (I wrote my own).

Next, let’s make a simple scatterplot of average time on page and word count, with a sub-dimension of number of sessions:

Already we see that there isn’t really a relationship between these two variables – and there logically should be, if the content was all of the same quality. But it’s not- why is that? It’s because the pages aren’t the same quality. They’re not the same topic, not the same age, not the same writing quality. My blog is 14 years old as of 2021; it would be a bad thing if the writing quality of content from 2007 was the same as it is in 2021.

There are, of course, external factors to take into account as well. The audience has changed, search algorithms have changed, social media newsfeed algorithms (and social media channels) have changed. We can’t ignore those, but we also can’t do much about them.

Let’s take our data and make it a little easier to see by changing the axes from linear to logarithmic and putting some median lines on it:

Ah ha! Now we have four basic quadrants of content quality. In the lower left, we have content that has relatively few words and low time on page. That’s normal; those would be good pages to beef up, perhaps, especially those getting more traffic already.

In the upper left, we have pages with high time on page and low word counts. Those are definitely pages to take a look at and see if there are opportunities to improve them.

In the upper right, we have pages with high time on page and high word counts. These are the pages that are behaving as expected.

In the lower right, we have the problem pages – high word counts and low time on page. These are the pages people are simply not sticking around for.

What Next?

Now that we know what pages are potentially problematic, we export them and start digging in:
- Is the page quality really bad?
- Is the writing so bad that it needs to be completely rewritten?
- Is the topic so far off what I want to be known for that the page should just be retired?
The good news is this analysis can be done in any modern spreadsheet software, combining the data from Google Analytics with data from an SEO tool. Try it for yourself, and see if you can shed some light on what content isn’t carrying its weight.

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May 19, 2021
Google Analytics 4: User Medium vs Session Medium
Guilherme asks, “In the acquisition report, when it’s on the user tab, it’s listing the channel that the those users came through on:
A – their first visit ever
B – their first visit within the selected timeframe
C – the last visit ever
D – the last visit within the selected timeframe
E – other?”

This is a good question that the basic documentation doesn’t really answer. You’ll find the answer in the dimensions and metrics guidance, which states:

“Session medium: channel that referred the user’s session.”

“User medium: Medium by which the user was first acquired, based on the Cross-channel last click attribution model.”

For those unfamiliar, the cross-channel last click attribution model is Google’s basic last-click attribution model with a slight twist: it excludes direct traffc (traffic that is unattributed) except when no other data is available.

Thus, the user medium is essentially the first touch, while the session medium is the current last touch for that user.

What do we do with this information? Now that we have a sense of what the two dimensions mean, we start to assemble explorations like this:

What we see above is the first touch and last touch, followed by active users, events, and conversions. While this is by no means a comprehensive attribution model, it is for the moment the only kind of attribution model available in Google Analytics 4 at the time of this writing, without building one from the raw data.

If you’re trying to do attribution analysis in Google Analytics 4, the reality is that as of right now, it’s not ready for prime-time compared to the more thorough models that are bundled in Google Analytics 3 (Universal Analytics). Until GA 4 matures, stick with the models in Google Attribution for GA 3.

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March 22, 2021
Google Analytics 4 Traffic Types by Stream
Guilherme asks, "Can I ask you something about platform type? I ran facebook ads to my website, shouldn’t my traffic be split between the 3 types fo platform (web, android and ios)? I only got Web…"

There’s a bit of a mixup here. Let’s dig into some of the nomenclature of Google Analytics 4 to clear things up.

Google Analytics 4 Data Streams

Google Analytics 4 supports 3 different types of data streams as inputs into the application – web, Android, and iOS. These are not outputs, meaning that you would analyze each separately. These are inputs.

The purpose of data streams is to bring in data from different application types into a single Google Analytics 4 account for analysis. You wouldn’t perform analysis on the different data stream types, nor would Facebook ads sending traffic to your web property show up in your iOS or Android streams.

So if you don’t analyze by data stream, where do you analyze? By the outputs.

Google Analytics 4 Analysis Hub

To understand how your ads performed on the different devices, you’d instead build an analysis using operating system in the comparison tool. For example, I’ve created a three way split of my traffic here for iOS, Android, and the desktop operating systems, just in the regular Traffic Acquisition canned report:

And of course, you could slice and dice that any number of ways; the preferred way to run that kind of analysis is in the Google Analytics 4 Analysis Hub. Analysis Hub is a far more flexible way to dig into your GA4 data, as well as save previous analyses for future re-use.

Above, I’ve set up a dimension for Operating System, a second dimension for Session Campaign, and a filter for the Session Campaign; since I don’t run Facebook Ads, I specified my newsletter instead. Now I’m able to slice and dice to see how much traffic I got to my website from my newsletter, by operating system.

If this is just ad hoc analysis to answer a specific question, then Google Analytics 4 is the place to do this. However, if this is something you want to be able to report on regularly and frequently, Google intends for you to do that elsewhere.

Google Analytics 4 Reporting is in Google Data Studio

The old Google Analytics was built as a Swiss army knife of sorts – data collection, analysis, and reporting rolled into one application. The new Google Analytics 4 is not designed for this – it’s a true analysis tool, which means things like reporting and visualization aren’t done in GA4. They’re intended to be done in Google Data Studio:

Above, I’ve created an overly simple pivot table with operating system and the acquired source of my newsletter; you can just as easily put in medium or campaign to get the same reporting. If you need a canned report, especially for presenting to stakeholders, this is the way you’d do it.

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January 8, 2021
You Ask, I Answer: Measuring A Social Post’s Impact?
Karalyn asks, “In a situation where the marketing tweet did not have a higher engagement rate, but did have a higher impact, how do you show that community value to a client?”

Community value is measured over the long-term, which means first educating the client on the value of a community. The day you plant seeds is not the day you measure the output of your crop unless you’re an idiot. The next step is robust analytics infrastructure and collection of qualitative data. The final step is building an attribution model over a very long timeframe.

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In today’s episode, Carolyn asks, in a situation where the marketing tweet did not have a higher engagement rate, but did have higher impact.

How do you show that community value to a client? It’s a good question.

Community value is one of those things that’s measured over the long term, it’s not a campaign, it’s not something that you can just take a snapshot of and say, This is the value of the community, you can, in theory, do that, after a long period of time, showed the value of community as an ongoing asset.

But any one individual snapshots not going to be super helpful.

The first challenge you’re going to run into when talking to clients about the value of community is helping them make that mind shift to the fact that it’s a long term asset is not something that you can spin up immediately.

It’s not like, you know, an email, we can just send an email.

A lot of the time, that’s a struggle for clients to understand, particularly if they’re under the gun, and they’re being pressured to show results quickly.

You can reap the value of a community at any given time, based on where is at that point in time.

But you can’t create a new one on the fly and have it be really effective.

The analogy that I often use is, you know, the day you plant seeds is not the day you measure the value of a crop, right? Unless you’re an idiot.

It takes a long time to grow community.

Now once you’ve got it going.

And once you’ve got it growing over months, or years or decades, then you can demonstrate the value of that community fairly effectively.

But it’s the growing part takes the longest.

So that’s part one.

Part two is setting up a robust analytics infrastructure and, and collection of qualitative data.

And again, this is part where companies fall down hard means having great web analytics and digital analytics, having a great marketing automation system, a great CRM, and integrating a little bit and collecting data, collecting a lot of data.

Everything from the basics of tagging and tracking of where people came from online, to the most important part, which again, is the part people don’t do, figuring out and asking people, how did you hear about us? What made you come in today? What made you reach out to us today? What’s your intent to purchase from us? When was the last time you remember hearing from us? What was last time you interacted with us? All these different kinds of questions are absolutely essential for understanding the value of community.

Pick, the question that most accurately reflects the value of the community you’re trying to prove.

And be asking all the time at point of sale at at forum completion on the website, on at the register me on the phone calling, calling up customers and asking them in the community itself.

Those are all things you need to do.

And then the third part is building an attribution model that has a very long timeframe.

And again, this is where a lot of systems really fall down.

companies tend to look at analytics and attribution models in in very short frames, timeframe, snapshots, okay, like a 30 day model or a 28 day model.

That’s not enough time to measure the value of a community, particularly when it’s something like Twitter, or Instagram or whatever.

You have to be able to look at what is the value of that channel that the community exists on over the very long timeframe, right over a very long horizon.

So let’s look at an example.

So this is my digital customer journey analysis for my website for year to date, 2012, this is 11 months, this is an 11 month model.

Even this might be too short.

But here we see organic search plays, obviously a huge role in my website, followed by my email newsletter, then medium and then Twitter, right 67% 67 conversions from Twitter, Facebook is on there as well.

YouTube is a little further down.

And we see all of these different channels and how they’re helping contribute to conversions.

This is the value of that channel and the activities I perform on it over a very long period of time.

So 11 months being able to show a stakeholder then yes, in the long term, this is the value of that community is one of those things that you an attribution model like this helps to prove but even this is not the full picture.

Because even though this particular model which uses machine learning to track of the traffic you know, and where it comes from over 11 months is not necessarily going to reflect things that like mind share.

So mindshare being one of those things like, if you have learned of me by name, what you would do as a next step would be to look at my favorite metric for share of mind, which is branded organic search, how many people search for you by name, over a given period of time.

If you are building a community, and you’ve got all these systems collected, then that mindshare piece is the last part.

So when people someone’s thinking about you thinking about your blog, thinking about your newsletter, thinking about your products or services, and they’re googling for you, you should see that you should see that reflected in your data, you should see that reflected in how often people search for you, and you get this data out of things like Google Search Console, etc.

When you get that data, then you take it with the social data, you would remap this as social data over time.

And see which channels have the highest mathematical correlation to the brand new organic search data to understand, oh, this channel and search seem to move together, you’d also want to run a cross correlation to see which came first, if the search came before the social channel, and social channels not impacting search, it’s the other way around.

So those are the steps that you need to take to prove the value of community to a client.

If you do it, well, you can absolutely illustrate this is what this community does for us.

That means being able to get more funding, etc.

If you don’t do it, well, if a company doesn’t do it, well, if their analytics infrastructure isn’t robust, and their governance is bad, you’re not going to prove that the community but good news is they’re also not going to prove the value of anything else.

So it’s not like you will stand out as the as the one glaring example of what’s not working.

No one will be able to prove anything, because your animal, their analytics infrastructures is not up to scratch.

It’s challenging.

As you can see, it requires a decent amount of technology.

But again, if you can pull it off, then you can prove the value of not only the community, but all the other channels as well.

And understand the impact of your community on all these talents.

Like when I’m looking at this and I see my newsletter is responsible for 300 conversions this year, that tells me that my newsletter community, my email community, it’s working, right.

On the other hand, I look at something like LinkedIn, oh, way down near the bottom, my LinkedIn Kindred is not working for me.

And that would be a clear diagnostic to say, hey, whatever it is I’m doing on LinkedIn.

It’s not worth doing or I’m not doing it.

Well, one of the two.

And it’s time to time switch things up.

So good question.

There’s a lot that goes into answering this question.

And it’s very challenging, so expect and set expectations with the client as well.

fixing this if it’s not already well set up fixing this will also take time.

It will take a time to get your analytics in place to get people complying with governance directives around marketing.

It will take time to grow that community.

Again, community is one of those things measured in honestly in years, right.

You’re it’s not something that happens overnight.

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December 7, 2020
You Ask, I Answer: Screen Resolution in Google Analytics?
Onurcan asks, “I would like to kindly ask a question about that I’m tracking that one of the mobile native app android version in Google Analytics. Why is Screen Resolution show as (not set) in my Google Analytics reports?”

This one’s straightforward, and it’s likely due to your implementation of GA for mobile apps. You’re an ideal use case for migrating to Google Analytics 4, where stuff like this is handled straight out of the box. Web analytics work poorly, if at all, with mobile apps. You should be using app analytics and the app data stream in Google Analytics 4.

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In today’s episode, owner, john, I’m guessing that’s how that’s pronounced in Turkish auto.

JOHN asks, I would like to kindly ask your question about, I’m tracking that one of the mobile native app, Android versions in Google Analytics.

Why is screen resolution shown is not set in your Google Analytics reports? Okay, this one’s pretty straightforward.

It’s because Google Analytics for the web is not suited for mobile apps.

Prior to the advent of app plus web, or Now Google Analytics for you need to use Google’s Firebase Analytics for mobile apps, which contain data like that.

Now, with the advent of Google Analytics for all that information should be centralized within ga for your an ideal use case, actually, for using Google Analytics for for collecting this kind of information, because it really is intended for people who’ve got web properties of some kind.

And also mobile apps of some kind, which increasingly, more and more companies have, and being able to cross match between devices, and see what kinds of devices people are using on your stuff.

So let’s take a quick look at this.

Let’s move over here.

So here’s Google Analytics for and where you would set this up as First you go into your admin, and you are going to go do your property settings go away, I’m sorry, you’re gonna go to your data streams.

And you’re going to set up a data stream for each of the versions of mobile app you have.

So you have an iOS data stream.

If you have an iPhone app, you have an Android data stream.

And then you’re going to deploy your Google Analytics for tracking code inside each of those apps, either using an SDK or using Tag Manager.

So just as an example, let’s do a test.

Let’s see.

Okay, let’s register the app.

That’s going to go through and create all the necessary pieces to build a Firebase database by the way, Firebase is actually what Google Analytics for is underneath the hood.

And then you will go through and implement this in side your mobile app, I’m gonna just cancel out of this because this is not something I need to have set up here.

Once you’ve got your SDK tracker implemented inside of your mobile app, then it’s time to head into Google Analytics for to see how is that data being displayed.

So in Google Analytics for your gonna go to the tech section, one of the things people having a lot of trouble with in in ga four is that things are not necessarily obvious.

at first blush where everything is this is the the technology section, you can see it defaults to things like browsers, scroll down, choose screen resolution.

And then you can start getting, obviously, once your mobile app is all set, you can start getting a sense of what size screen people are looking at your stuff on the web.

Now, you may want to add some additional clarity as to what type of device it is that somebody’s working with.

So let’s go with device category access good device.

I’ve got a bunch of not sets there.

Why? Because it is Firebase Analytics.

And this is I’m using my web stream.

So I’m gonna have a whole bunch of not sets here because it’s not available, however I can for the web, do things like operating system.

And they could not start to see windows, Macintosh, etc.

and go here, go to Device brand, Apple, Google, etc.

So now starting to get a better sense of the different types of technologies.

Remember, because this is Google Analytics, four is a blend of both web and mobile, you’re going to get some data points, some devices and other data points or not, depending on whether you’re looking at at the data from a an app data stream, or a web data stream.

It’s not as you saw, there’s gonna be some things but there’s gonna be gaps.

Things are simply not in there.

And that’s okay.

As long as you understand what you’re looking at is, is the information you need to make choices about how you’re going to track and ultimately, what kinds of technology you deploy to make the best user experience at its core, This is Firebase Analytics, which means that it is well suited for mobile apps.

So to solve that screen resolution, not being shown in ga in your ga switch to ga for and get it deployed.

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November 30, 2020
You Ask, I Answer: Filtered Views and Google Analytics 4?
Josh asks, “In GA4, how do we properly understand the paradigm shift when it comes to filters? In the past, we could provide access to data across numerous groups just by setting up a filtered and customized view for users – but that looks like it has all gone away in favor of data streams.”

The short answer is that Google Analytics isn’t the tool for that any more – Google Data Studio is. Google Analytics 4 is now a BI tool. Watch the full video for an explanation of how to solve this challenge.

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In today’s episode Josh asks in Google Analytics for how do we properly understand the paradigm shift.

And when it comes to filters.

In the past, we could provide access to data sources across numerous groups just by setting up a filtered and customized view for our users.

But that looks like it has all gone away in favor of data streams.

is correct.

The way Google Analytics for functions now is, honestly, it’s a BI tool, it’s a business intelligence tool.

It is a data processor.

It is not a reporting tool.

It is not.

It’s not it isn’t an analysis tool.

But it is definitely not a reporting and visualization tool anymore.

And it is very clear from how it is designed that the intended purpose of it is for analysts to be able to look at the data, slice it dice it, come up with models and algorithms and conclusions about the data, and then be able to publish those insights.

When you look inside the interface for Google Analytics for there isn’t as much granularity when it comes to access control, because obviously, the view itself is gone.

So what do we what do we make of this? Where are we supposed to be doing this kind of work? Well, it comes out, essentially in two different places.

One, for the average use case, for the average business, the intended tool for reporting is Google Data Studio.

Right.

Even though the connector between Google Analytics and Google Data Studio isn’t, isn’t quite ready for primetime, yet, that’s a pretty apparent design decision.

When you’re handing off stuff to business lines, you’re filtering it, you’re selecting it, you’re cleaning it up.

In Data Studio, Data Studio is the visualization engine.

And in a lot of ways, this makes a lot of sense, it is more work for the marketing technology team, or the data science team up front to build all these dashboards for people in the company rather than just giving them access to Google Analytics.

But in the end, it probably serves them better.

Because a lot of users, when they’re looking at raw data, if they’re not well trained, and have a good understanding of data analysis, will poke around Google Analytics and draw the wrong conclusions.

They will draw conclusions that are incorrect.

And they will make decisions that aren’t correct.

And so by having Google Analytics for be a little less user friendly, in some ways, for the average end user, it really pushes us to think about visualization to think about reporting, and think about what people need, honestly, what are the things that people need to know, in order to be able to make great decisions.

I can’t tell you the number of dashboards and reports and things I’ve looked at, you know, over the years, which don’t really communicate anything, I mean, they they dump a bunch of data on somebody’s desk, but really communicating that and, you know, having an end user clicking around 12, or 14 different places inside of Google Analytics isn’t efficient, right? Better to assemble them a single dashboard, one page two page, however many pages it needs to be, that presents them all the information they need in order to make decisions, and then saves the analysis tool for the actual analysts.

So that when that person looks at their date and goes, Hey, this doesn’t make sense.

I have a question here.

They can go to an analyst who can log into Google Analytics for slice and dice the data within the application and then either update the dashboard in Data Studio, or provide guidance to them say like, yeah, this is the reason this is the way it is, you know, X or Y.

That is the paradigm shift that has the Google Analytics for presents.

Now.

Is that to say it’s the way it’s going to be for all time? No, we don’t know that.

Now.

We do know, many folks have commented, including on the official support forums that Google Analytics for is still in development.

It is in beta.

Even though it was announced and being ready for launch.

It is still evolving as a product as a service.

So the same for all the Google products in the Google Marketing Platform.

They’re all evolving.

And things that are not there now may show up at some point.

That said I don’t see the ease of use and the customization that’s available in Data Studio, being brought back to Google items.

For I, the design decisions that you’re looking at, to me indicate where Google wants us focusing our efforts as marketing technologists when it comes to end user reporting.

And that is providing them dashboards that are easy to use, that have been thoughtfully built.

And that helps people make decisions.

Now, here’s the challenge.

If you’re got somebody who’s not good at building dashboards, it’s not an improvement, right? Or you have an end user who doesn’t know what they want.

And you don’t have an analyst who is capable or in a position to be asking questions of a stakeholder saying, Well, no, tell me what decisions you actually make from this data.

And you know, the person’s like, No, no, I really need to see your bounce rate and time on page.

And I need to see how many people came from Pinterest.

And I need to see, you know, number of tweets on Tuesdays, right? All kinds of silly stuff that they feel like they need.

But that doesn’t actually help them make any better decisions, that it will be an organizational challenge.

That’s a people challenge, as opposed to a technology challenge.

And that will be more difficult in this new environment.

Whereas you could hand them a Google Analytics view, and say, Good luck, and then just let them stumble around blindly until they get disgusted.

And then they don’t ever look again.

Neither approach solves the problem.

But the dashboard approach with Data Studio makes it more of your problem.

So we have to be aware, as analysts, as marketing technologists, that the new paradigm in Google Analytics for places more of the analysis burden on us and the construction of the reporting burden on us.

And then once we offload that, then it’s up to our organizations and how we approach things as to whether there’s an ongoing burden on us for reporting a visualization or if we hand it off and say, yeah, here’s the dashboard you requested.

Enjoy, and the user gets what they get.

So it’s a really good question.

There are a lot of paradigm shifts in Google Analytics for there is a better analysis tool than Google Analytics three, I have found you know, in my use of it, it is more granular, you can dig deeper, you can find interesting new things, but it is not easy to use.

And for the end user who does not have comfort with deep data analysis, it is not a better tool.

But again, that’s where data studios roll is.

So really good question.

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November 23, 2020
You Ask, I Answer: Google Analytics and Data Privacy?
Jim asks, “We’ve actually gotten pushback internally for using GA because of data privacy. Ever come across this?”

Plenty of times. There are situations in which Google Analytics would not meet regulatory requirements. Google Analytics is not HIPAA compliant; the only industry certification for security it possesses is ISO 27001. And while no PII/SPI/PHI is ever supposed to be in GA, we know it happens. So best practice, if you are working in an environment that mandates a certification GA doesn’t have (like TS/SCI), you have to use something else.

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In today’s episode, Jim asks, we’ve actually gotten pushback internally for using Google Analytics because of data privacy.

Have you ever come across this? Yes.

plenty of times there are situations where Google Analytics does not meet regulatory requirements for data privacy, data security, things like that.

For the average business, as long as you’ve implemented correctly, it’s fine.

For businesses that require an ISO certification, like ISO to 7001, which is a cybersecurity standard, Google Analytics is fine.

for situations where you have sensitive personal information or protected health information, for example, Google Analytics is not fine.

And the reason for this is that there’s no way that you can prove the compliance to some of those standards, with Google as the data processor and the data living on remote servers that you don’t have control over.

And that is, and remains one of the biggest challenges for organizations that want to be able to use web analytics in a highly sensitive environment.

Generally speaking, a big part of compliance issues with Google Analytics, in general, is implementation.

If you are inadvertently passing protected information of any kind, even if it’s just personally identifiable information, you are creating a data security problem.

And you are also technically violating the terms of service for Google Analytics itself.

One of the prohibitions for using the software is that you do not attempt to store any personally identifiable information within Google Analytics.

So no email addresses, no names, no social security numbers, nothing that would create essentially a legal hazard for Google, as well as your organization, those things cannot be stored in there.

So a big part for all organizations is making sure that you have implemented and audited it on a regular and frequent basis to make sure you’re not pushing data in there that contains that information.

The biggest culprit are forms that do not use the HTTP POST protocol, there’s two protocols with forms GET and POST, get puts the data from the form into the URL of a form.

And then that gets processed on your website somewhere, post puts it in a different mechanism, that is not the URL.

And when you put personally identifiable information in the URL of the site, by default, you are putting it into Google Analytics.

And that’s where a lot of the trouble happens when you’re talking about getting data in there.

Now, there are other ways to put data into Google Analytics, the measurement API, the measurement protocol, custom dimensions, custom metrics, things like that.

But those typically require conscious intent, you have to want to do that to build it into your API calls, or to build it into a custom dimension or metric that you set up as a trigger in Google Tag Manager.

And so most companies, following basic compliance, wouldn’t do that.

It’s just not something they would do.

Whereas most companies don’t necessarily audit their forms to see what mechanism they’re sending.

And so you can be accidentally sending that data in.

So one of the critical things to do if you are using Google Analytics, regardless of your data privacy policies, is to audit your forms, audit your website, and make sure you’re not putting any obvious data into Google Analytics by accident.

Now, Google Analytics is not HIPAA compliant.

Google says so in the documentation on its website, it does not meet the standard for HIPAA, the health information Portability and Accountability Act.

As I said, the only certification has is ISO to 7001, the information security certification.

And so if you have higher restrictions, like FERPA, for example, HIPAA, top secret, special compartmented information, you absolutely should not be using Google Analytics, for pages that are involved in in those environments.

Now.

If you’re in, for example, a healthcare environment, you can have your public website running Google Analytics, right.

And then like a patient portal where people log in hmm that’s that’s a place where you don’t want to have it running.

You want to have a different solution in those cases.

Same for you know, finance or education.

If you’ve got you know, regulations like FERPA, for example, that governs education.

Your colleges website can absolutely run Google analyze Right, because you should not be collecting personally identifiable information on your public college website, on your student portal, on your academic portal on your faculty portals should not be running unless you have audited them, and made sure they are not passing sensitive information into Google Analytics.

Now, if you want to have web analytics in those situations, you need to have something that runs locally on servers that you own an audit and can pass it an auditor’s test.

And then you would run an open source web analytics package that runs on those servers that, obviously because you own them, and you own where the data is stored, you are then, in compliance with many of those things, the package that I recommend, is an open source package called matomo.

matomo runs, like I said, locally on a server that you set up, designate and run.

And it can be tuned to be, however strict or lenient, you want it to be with the collection of data.

But in those environments where you have, you know, user data, PII SPI, Ph I, that’s the kind of software you want to run, you want to make sure that they are kept separate, that you don’t use the same Tag Manager containers.

In fact, for servers that run sensitive information, I would not use Tag Manager at all I would use matomo has a version of its own Tag Manager that again, runs on a server that you control.

And keep those things separate, you’ll have to build separate reporting, you’ll have to go through the hoops of keeping those systems totally separated.

But in doing so you’re meeting the compliance requirements, as long as the server you’re running it on, of course, meets those compliance requirements as well.

So matomo, on a locally run server will get you web analytics without running into the data privacy issues.

Now, for organizations that don’t meet those regulatory requirement, but don’t have those regulatory requirements, they are not HIPAA organizations are not healthcare or education or finance.

And you’re just getting pushback internally.

A big part of that, again, goes to configuration and setup and doing audits.

And if you can demonstrate to your stakeholders, yeah, we’ve done an audit, we’ve validated that we’re not sending any data to Google that we shouldn’t be, then I think you can make a pretty strong case, that’s fine to use in those situations where you’re not going to be collecting sensitive data.

But it’s really important to do that audit.

There are any number of very straightforward techniques to do do that kind of auditing.

A lot of it involves you if you’ve got Google Analytics already running, just looking through the data you’re collecting, as well as being on the website itself and measuring to make sure that forms behave properly, that you can’t see something obvious in the URL like Oh, look, there’s my name, just submit the form.

That’s a pretty clear indicator that you’re not doing something correctly.

But it’s a good question.

It’s an important discussion, because not enough organizations think about privacy.

Not enough organizations think about data privacy, and where the data lives, and what data we’re sending and to whom.

So some good questions.

What I would do is contact your legal counsel and get a list of what you are required to comply with, and then use that to decide Can I make Google Analytics do this? Or is this something that Google Analytics simply cannot do? And if the latter is the case, and you have to use a different solution? Got follow up questions, leave them in the comments box below.

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November 9, 2020

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