Events in Google Analytics 4 // 2021 Tutorial // Automatic, Recommended and Custom Events in GA4

[@TheGorillafoot]

Good stuff, again thank you. Picking up a bunch from your tutorials. Subbed.

[@InfoLegsBrandsTM]

Well articulated, easy to follow, simple and calms me. I no longer feel overwhelmed by setting up events. I just subscribed. Thank you Sir.

[@joseph_pokemon]

this is a true hidden gem....I'm a dev and not a data scientist and this is saving me a lot of time! thank you so much....you deserve a lot more views and likes....

[@alexbloomberg4221]

I was literally about to Google GA4 Events tracking, and this video lands on my Home page. Updated tutorial. Perfect. Thank you.

[@danielrushton]

Your videos are so value-filled! The information is concise and well structured, thanks so much 🥳 I am going to be using the events to monitor our lead generation within our new lead magnet marketing campaign 🚀

[@LovesData]

Awesome. Great to hear Daniel!

[@Mary_Duarte]

Great video, thank you so much. Now I love GA4 because of you, the video was concise and clear.

[@karimakebabi9022]

Thank you very much for such a rich content.

[@Thebaptizedshaman]

Thanks! This was so helpful especially the comparison between old events in UA and new events in GA4.

[@karenhawker3915]

I'm trying to track form submissions. The GA4 tag is firing in Tag Manager but isn't flowing to GA4. Your videos really helped. I'm not sure if I got it working, but I know I'm closer! I'm sure I'll be watching these again! Thank you!

[@WestbrookAds]

you deserve way more subs

[@ivanstoyanov819]

Hi Benjamin, great videos. Thank you so much for the quality content.🙏

[@minma02262]

Damn. Your such a good teacher. Your video is gold.

[@DigitalPlumbing]

Champion! Thank you

[@marioibarra2431]

Hi Benjamin. thanks for such a complete video tutorial, your work is deeply appreciated and highly valuable. such a great teacher. also have all super organized if you need to deep dive in to a topic.

[@alexgrajeda3465]

Hello, Great video! Where is the video in the description that shows how to set up those e-commerce recommended events?

[@christopherclarke2208]

beautiful video. thank you

[@alexjohntech]

Nice. Is there a tool to upload annotations from Universal to GA4?

[@daveroeser8461]

GA4 is so damn frustrating...My client has multiple Thank You pages. How can generate_lead be used for that? How much of the URL needs to be in the value field? We created a new event following your very clear tutorial (and many thanks for your channel) - named it Contact-Us, event_name equals Page_view, condition page_location equals /form/contact-us. This matches what the Goal is set to in UA. Thanks in advance for any suggestions, comments, etc.

[@advisr]

Hi, great videos. I've struggled to find an answer to this question - With automatic events, such as page_views, are you able to add custom parameters as you can with custom events? Or are you better off setting up custom events for things like page views where you can add any parameters you require?

[@RonyMattar]

Thank you!

[@RivalD666]

Top content, very helpful.

[@dettmannmedia]

After I created a custom event, it's not appearing in the list of events. Why?

[@HarmonyWheeler]

Please create tutorials that don't use GTM.

[@shilpasharma8017]

Video is very helpful to understand datalayer.I implemented the datalayer to get array elements from check out event .I used custom java script variable to fetch data in comma seprated form .How do i use this in my report

[@ShrayChugh]

Hi. I wanted to track the performance of my homepage banner ( Clicks). There will be multiple banners on my homepage. What would be the best approach to record this in GA4

[@sivamokkala]

Thanks a lot for the video 🙏🙏🙏

[@JackJohnson-b8b]

Hi Benjamin, as a slight aside, do you know how to uncheck the default 'Purchse' conversion in GA4. I dont want to track this as i have set my evens/conversions up manually.

[@LovesData]

You can’t. It’s the default, but if you’re not collecting purchase events it won’t have any impact.

[@AlbeiroOchoaGutierrez]

Can 2 conversions have the same name?

[@selectedmedia9887]

Hi Loves Data! Great video. We have a question. Should GTM button click tracking in GA4 be enabled in the GA4 reports via custom dimensions or are they automatically sent through via parameters that enables them to being turned on as custom conversions?

[@Johanna-je1fx]

Thanks for yet another great, in-depth explanation! I was looking for a way to display percentages next to the numbers in reports (for example Conversion Rate). Is it possible in GA4? If it is, do you have a video on how to do that? Thanks again :)

[@LovesData]

Hi Johanna, I'm so glad you liked it! Here is my recommendation for calculating conversion rate using data from GA4 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/goqZiWSIpK6Ad9k

[@Johanna-je1fx]

Perfect, thanks!

[@ryannorman7703]

What about time on page? Like, I only want an event to trigger if a user spends more than 10 seconds on a specific page.

[@durat]

i dont know which is better. Create separate events like Header_clicks Footer_clicks View1_clicks View2_clicks Or one big "click" and inside the clicks.. the problem with that i can't match the eventCategory with eventLabels.. i cant figure out how can i have a clickleble eventCategory to see the eventLabels

[@findtheoddgame]

Hi Mate, I configured the enhanced eCommerce tracking by following your concept in my woo-commerce website and tried sales also but it says revenue ZERO in GA4 e-commerce purchase. Are there any solutions? Like currency data layer variable returns Undefined. pls help!

[@kieranthomas3641]

Hi Benjamin. Great video; thanks for sharing. Quick question. Have you done a video on how to implement email and phone click events? I'm thinking we need to avoid the "generate_lead" event as in some cases they may not be leads. I've tried to set them up using the pointers in your video, but can't get it to show in the reports, so I guess I'm missing a step but can't identify what. If you've already done a video on this, I'd love to take a look if you'd be happy to share a link (Or if you haven't, perhaps it's a topic you'd consider for a future video? It's a fairly common task/requirement in old GA, so will add value to the community transitioning to GA4). Thanks :-)

[@ElizaMorrison]

can i track event per user? and see who the user is?

[@harishsuyalvlog8144]

Landing pages are not showing in real time of google analytics. I have just added the GA4 code to the website, so in the real time view of the analytics section, the user is showing but the landing page is not showing.

[@MaxRuso]

👍👍👍

[@thomasnorden4633]

Good video, as always. Any idea why events sent from GTM aren’t registered in GA4? I am using the same trigger as for UA, but for some reason GA4 doesn’t show it. Do I need to include a parameter or is it enough just to send the “naked” event name?

[@alexbloomberg4221]

I did what you described and it works.

[@earlytoriseab]

@@alexbloomberg4221 Events are showing up. I suppose it was a time delay.

[@alexbloomberg4221]

@@earlytoriseab there’s a “real-time” tab in GA to avoid confusion.

[@earlytoriseab]

@@alexbloomberg4221 Yes, but in GA4, events seem to take a while before they "trickle through the system".

[@likhithreddy1339]

​@@earlytoriseab hey, any idea how much time it takes to reflect in GA4 once events are created in GTM?

[@DanaCommunications-o5p]

How do you delete an event?

[@MrAmrmnabil]

Thanks

[@StereoPalto]

i hate ga4