How to migrate a basic website to Google Analytics 4

[@summit505]

What a ShitShow by google!! Can't thank you enough for showing me how this is done (I never would have figured it out on my own). The entire saga is unnecessarily convoluted and over the top. It's like google looked at Siebel Systems and though, now there's a horrific system.. how can we bring this to our customers!! Again thanks mate, I'd shout you some beers for this effort.

[@stiescreativeagency]

As always great info. Timecodes for each method would be super helpful. GTag method is 9:29.

[@MariusIhlar]

GTM is at 13:00

[@Ephremjlm1]

@@MariusIhlar bless you good sir

[@molotovctail6972]

Great - nice and clear unlike Google's pages.

[@aphex0008]

Ačiū Juliau! Puikiai paaiškinta.

[@hex_army]

Thank you.

[@ayathamed4077]

Very clear, thanks

[@sayed8222]

Thank you for step by step explanation

[@MarianneGeorgiou]

07:46 My developer must remove the jtag code once he install the GTM code, right? Or isn't it necessary?

[@shellcatt]

Great content. Thank you so much!

[@MarianneGeorgiou]

8:10 Hi! In this minute you say I will find the ID in my GA4 Account, but I am still in my old UA Account. How can I find it?

[@MarianneGeorgiou]

07:20 --> If I already have containers I don't create new one, right?

[@AnalyticsMania]

right, unless you have reasons to create one

[@susan-dk]

Hello, GA4 open funnels currently show 0 and I see similar people from the community have this problem. Please do you have any idea what could be responsible?

[@rohitdalal3290]

really helpful, thank you so much!

[@attitune]

I don't really understand what's going on but I got an email from Google saying I need to migrate my site(s) by July. I can't understand their "documentation" and I don't know what I'm supposed to do, so I'm trying to find a video to explain what it is (and how to do it, step by step) for non-engineers. Can someone recommend a good tutorial for non-programmers that won't take hours? I don't think I have anything customized in my UA analytics. Mostly I just hook up Google Analytics to my WordPress sites with an API. Also, what are the consequences if I just give up and do nothing? Thanks.

[@AnalyticsMania]

This basic tutorial is what you would need to follow. If that does not work for you, then you will probably need to spend hours on the migration to figure out what to do. I have ~4 hours of in-depth migration content in my GA4 course www.analyticsmania.com/courses/google-analytics-4-course/

[@BlackStudies]

@@AnalyticsMania This is not a basic tutorial. This is a tutorial in which you skip over explaining critical steps and details and assume the viewer can fill in the blanks...which begs the question, if that were the case, why on earth would I even need this video. This video is useless!

[@canetoad69]

​@@BlackStudiesyou lose all the data from UA the best you can do is export them you can't move the historical metrics from UA to GA4 that's why google sucks you can only add GA4 tracking to your website.

[@checktheselection7605]

@@canetoad69 If you don't export all of your analytics data by tonight(June 30th), is it all lost? Do you know if there will be a window of time to export the information?

[@checktheselection7605]

Thanks for asking this question. I'm curious about what happens if I do nothing.

[@TomBerry-Hopkins]

For the GA4 config trigger is it best to use 'All Pages' or 'Initialisation All Pages'?

[@AnalyticsMania]

Not big difference

[@MaxWeir]

I tried Tag Assistant for two sites and it failed to connect, I followed instructions using Tag Manager method but both don't connect, just says "Could not connect to [website]" - is there something wrong my end?

[@AnalyticsMania]

Probably www.analyticsmania.com/post/google-tag-manager-preview-mode-not-working/

[@nishanthmurugan7074]

how to setup conversion for GA4 using GTM? COuld you help me please

[@AnalyticsMania]

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[@cesartse]

Fucking hell. It looks like I need a fucken uni degree to do it Thanks Google

[@AnshulSingh-vz1bb]

lmao same its looks like rocket science

[@hadyanfakhri5967]

7:50 How about the body code ? Is it not necessary to copy ?

[@AnalyticsMania]

It's optional

[@ergonautilus]

My admin screen looks completely different from yours!

[@kiranm8984]

We have multiple verticals on the same website; how do we monitor their performance? In UA, we had the option to set up multiple views, and we were able to monitor their performance, but not in GA4. Would you kindly help with this?

[@ruchikumar43]

Any solution for this?

[@AndreaCinnamondCreative]

Can you run both GA3 and GA4 via GTM? Do you need two GTM scripts, one for GA3 and one for GA4? Thank you!

[@AnalyticsMania]

You can run them both in a single container

[@KenK-q9d]

still confused why you chose NO instead of YES to Migrate the data?

[@AnalyticsMania]

You cannot migrate the data. Does not matter if you click Yes or No

[@canetoad69]

​@@AnalyticsManiawhy google even bothered to create this shit ga4 while the data is not transferable to ga4. Dumb move from a big company