Google Analytics 4 migration

Don’t drive blind:

Ensure you do not lose all your data beyond July 2024.

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Act now. On July 1st, 2024, Google Analytics Universal properties’ data will vanish forever. Without it, you’ll lose a crucial tool for comparing seasonal and month-on-month data. It is high time you start the migration.

It is not enough to just “switch on” GA4 or let Google automatically create it for you. It has to be configured properly and all the tags need to be in place. Until you do that, you are losing data every single day.

 

Ensure a smooth transition and start collecting data with Google Analytics 4 now.

HOW migrate to GA4?

 

Migrating to GA4 is necessary to ensure that you have access to accurate and complete user behaviour data, and to continue using conversion and audience data in Google Ads.

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User-centric design

GA4 is built to track users across devices, providing a more accurate and complete understanding of user behavior. This is a major advantage over Universal Analytics (GA3), which was not designed with this in mind.
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End-of-life of Universal Analytics

Universal Analytics stopped working on July 1st, 2023. That Universal Analytics (GA3) is not be able to provide you data future data reporting. The historical data will be permanently delated by July 1st, 2024.

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No data migration

You cannot port historical data from Universal Analytics to GA4. Start collecting data early in GA4 will also allow to have more data to be able to compare Week over week etc.
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New platform and logic

GA4 is very different from Universal Analytics, and it will take some time for you and your organization to get comfortable with the new platform and logic.
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Impact on Google Ads

All conversions and audiences that you import from Google Analytics will stop working if you do not migrate to GA4.
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BigQuery integration out-of-the-box

You can put user behaviour data on steroids. The event-level GA4 data in Bigquery allows you to overcome pretty much all the limitations of the GA4 frontend, enabling in-depth analysis of your traffic and visitors, creating powerful custom reports and dashboards, building data pipelines and even machine learning models. Previously, this feature was only available with an expensive GA360 subscription, now it is free.

Why migrate to GA4?

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1. Audit

We conduct a comprehensive audit of your existing Universal Analytics configuration, document the required events and their tracking methods, datalayer elements, property settings, custom dimensions, and metrics. We size the work and give you a quote.

2. Proposal

We create a tracking and measurement plan tailored for your website / app.

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3. Datalayer setup

We update the datalayer to underpin a robust and holistic measurement approach that tracks events consistently and with low maintenance.

4. Implement GA4

We set up the event tracking according to the measurement plan, preferably using Google Tag Manager.

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5. Configure GA4

We configure the properties according to best practices and tailored to the measurement plan. We also establish the links to other platforms such as Google Ads or Search Console.

6. BigQuery export

We set up the data export to BigQuery, which takes web and app analytics to a whole new level. The data export is free and the storage cost is negligible. This enables the creation of powerful custom dashboards after a few months, when enough data has been collected.

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