Universal Analytics & GA4 parallel

  • Resolved W★

    (@filmpuls)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    Heja Dan,

    I do not seem able to manage to get the plugin working for Universal Analytics and GA4 in parallel. GA4 works (G-xxx (v4 API)), but whatever other setting I test for UA-yyy (v3 API), its either Universal Analytics or GA4 that is not working; Universal Analytics is connected to GA4 via tag in analytics.

    thanks for advising.

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  • ijjimem

    (@ijjimem)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Same issue!
    I need both analytics and gtag-4 to be served locally.

    ijjimem

    (@ijjimem)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Nevermind, find the solution.

    Use GA4 tag instead of analytics regular tag in the Google for WooCommerce.
    In GA configure them to be connected to each other.

    Good luck 🙂

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by ijjimem.
    Thread Starter W★

    (@filmpuls)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    @ijjimem thanks, have tested this already, but without success… have you connected GA4 to General Analytics or the other way round or vice versa?

    Plugin Author Daan van den Bergh

    (@daanvandenbergh)

    5 years ago

    Hi!

    Can you provide me with steps on how to setup UA alongside GA4? Because I honestly don’t really understand what you’re aiming at here. :+)

    Thread Starter W★

    (@filmpuls)

    5 years ago

    Hi back,

    Communication is the illusion that it has occurred 😉

    my question is: can CAOS plugin gather data from both UA and GA4? I have tested to add Google Analytics Tracking ID G-xxx in Basic settings and G4tag.js under advanced settings, and also adding Google Analytics Tracking ID UA-xxx and analytics.js without success.

    best, K

    • This reply was modified 5 years ago by W★.
    Plugin Author Daan van den Bergh

    (@daanvandenbergh)

    5 years ago

    Hi W,

    That clarifies things. 🙂 Thanks!

    Short answer: No, CAOS can’t do that. 🙂 It’s either GA4 or UA. Could you provide a use case why that would be a useful feature? Then I’ll consider adding it. 🙂

    Thread Starter W★

    (@filmpuls)

    5 years ago

    1. the dumbest and at the same time truest of all answers: because a client of mine wants it
    2. because a comparison of data from UA and GA4 is a good learning and therefore not without sense
    3. and: because it is not possible with CAOS plugin, but with tracking code in header/footer it can be done.
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    Thread Starter W★

    (@filmpuls)

    5 years ago

    all questions answered; thanks Daan!

    Plugin Author Daan van den Bergh

    (@daanvandenbergh)

    5 years ago

    Well, since you make such a convincing argument 😉 I started browsing around the interwebs and found this.

    According to Google’s documentation we should be able to run them both in paralel by simply providing the GA4 ID in a second config attribute.

    So, I made this mini plugin which should do the trick!

    Let me know how it goes!

    Thread Starter W★

    (@filmpuls)

    5 years ago

    thanks, Daan – tested it, did not work and even having deleted the mini-plugin and CAOS (removing all data from CAOS) and re-installed CAOS, CAOS plugin is not adding UA-code (checked in the source code) anymore and stopped working 🙁

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    Plugin Author Daan van den Bergh

    (@daanvandenbergh)

    5 years ago

    Page cache?

    Thread Starter W★

    (@filmpuls)

    5 years ago

    first thing I did – checked the SQL (I know, there is a seeting in advanced section to erase all data when uninstalling), but still found some data, probably because I am using CAOS happily for years now.

    re-installed and here we go, the magic happens 🙂 🙂

    Plugin Author Daan van den Bergh

    (@daanvandenbergh)

    5 years ago

    So, we’re good. It works now?

    Btw. You did insert your G- tracking ID into the code of the plugin?

    Thread Starter W★

    (@filmpuls)

    5 years ago

    good is the prename, its close to perfect 😉 and yes, have adapted G-XXXXXXX in caos-ga4-ua.php in order to help Mr. Google to understand who I am.

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