Using Google Analytics 4
https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/using-google-analytics-4
by Doru Catana
Mod 1: Course Overview
- Course Overview
Mod 2: Why Use Google Analytics 4
- Why Use Google Analytics 4 and What's Different
- GA4 has moved from session based to event based model
- additional information on how GA4 differs from previous versions
- Course Overview
- Setup Prerequisites
Mod 3: Setting Up Google Analytics
- Account Structure and Tracking Methods
- Identity Spaces: How Google Analytics Tracks You
- you google account
- cookies
- personalized user id from the site
- Setting up GA4 Tracking
- Benefits of Using Google Tag Manager
- makes creating custom events easy
- discusses chrome extension for google analytics
Mod 4: Understanding Reports
- Reporting Overview and Segmentation
- google provides a demo google analytics account for playing around with
- in reports, you can add Comparisons, Filters
- Acquisition - Traffic Channels and Sources
- first time visitors to your site are under User Acquisition
- traffic acquisition referrers to all traffic, new and old users
- First user default channel group is the first session of a user
- Session default channel group is the last session of the user
- Engaged Session
- When a session is longer than IO seconds, has a conversion event happen and at least 2 pageviews.
- Engagement - User Interaction in GA4
- Events: The Core of GA4 Tracking
- Automatically collected events
- Enhanced measurement events
- Recommended events
- Custom events
- Conversions are simply Events marked as conversions
- User Demographics and Tech
Mod 5: Explore: Templates, Techniques, and Use Cases
- Exploration Data
- Exploration data is limited to your data retention settings
- demo of building an exploration from scratch
- shows how to create a custom segment
- Funnel Explorations
- Funnel: A way to visualize the steps users take towards completing a task
- explains the Make Open Funnel setting
- you will need to configure Steps to have to make sense to your business domain
- Path Explorations
- path explorations can be used to discover what actions your users are taking and see where they are going when browsing
- node types cannot be changed
- you can work your way back from any event. try it
- Segment Overlap
Mod 6: Advertising: Channels, Attribution, and Monetization
- Get the Most Out of Advertising
- Attribution Models and Conversion Paths
- Ecommerce and Monetization
Mod 7: Configure: Events, Conversions, and Audiences
- Audiences
- Audiences are not retroactive
- they gather data only after you have created it
- Recommended Events
- Custom Events, Definitions, and Metrics
- how to create a custom event based on URL and how to make it into a conversion try it
- Tracking Form Submissions in GA4
Mod 8: Admin and Product Integrations
- GA4 Settings, Features, Roles, and Account Access
- Data Settings
- Product Links in GA4
Mod 9: Going Pro
- Course Summary
- Moving Forward
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