On learning your way around the new Google Analytics
Hey there, happy Friday!
I finally learned my way around the new Google Analytics 4 this week—and made a guide to help you make the switch. After a decade and change of using Google Analytics to track my blog pageviews, see how many people stop by on the average week, and find pages that are linking to my site, I’m used to the older Google Analytics—what Google’s now referring to as Universal Analytics or GA3.
Now it’s going away—and sometime between now and next July, you’re going to have to switch to the new Google Analytics.
So I finally dug in, relocated all the things I usually check (including the Site Content → All Pages view that I visit the most—which now is in a new Pages and Screens dashboard), and found a way to more-or-less replicate the bounce rate now that it’s been removed from Google Analytics.
And I wrote it all down in a quick guide to Google Analytics 4, since I know it’ll take away to unlearn a decade of muscle memory. It just might be the guide you need to get switched.
If you find anything else that you can’t track down in the new Google Analytics, let me know, and I’ll see if I can find it and add it to the guide for you.
Have a great weekend!
~ Matt and the Reproof team