Back in time, I remember relying on jQuery for all the custom event tracking on my client websites, it was really great since it was covering the support for IE8, IE9. Since jQuery dropped the support for the older browser versions, the point of using it for the clicks / interactions tracking has lost most of the sense for me. While jQuery is still a really good library…

I'm really obsessed with performance, while I may not be the best on that task I'm a real tryhard on that topic, at least up to where my knowledge allows me. And this said, I really miss the Site Speed Report on Google Analytics 4. This is why I replicated the current metrics and logic from Universal Analytics, and I sharing it with you on this post. If you end implementing this tracking you'll have the…

One of the most notorious misses on Google Analytics 4. Is the lack of AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) Pages tracking support. While this may not be an issue for many sites, there're some website types that really need this support (like media sites or magazines). That's why I decided to investigate the possibilities of <amp-analytics> Component and APIs in order to try to build an AMP…

When Google Announced Google Analytics 4, I started to work on this library, with the main aim to be used as a customTask. Now the current deadline is 1 year-ish for all free Universal Analytics users and 3 extra months ( thanks? ) for paid users. In my very humble opinion, this is very short notice for such a big work. In my experience, a big implementation will take at least 6 months…

If you're using Google Tag Manager for setting up Google Analytics 4 tracking you may have noticed the need of creating a separate tag for each event we want to track. While this gives a really nice and easy-to-understand photo of the current used events, it may add a ton of work for maintaining them, for example, if at some point we end up having hundreds of them.In Universal Analytics many implementations…

I must admit it, I miss the flexibility the customTasks give to Universal Analytics, and I really hope someone takes a step forward at some point by adding that feature to Google Analytics 4.In the meanwhile, I was in the need of doing parallel tracking, ie: sending the data to two different Measurement IDs and that would mean duplicating all the event…

At his point, many ( if not all ) have heard Google Analytics is moving to an "events" based tracking model with Google Analytics 4. But, what does it really imply? Do we have to worry about it?. To be honest, it's not a big ( from the implementation side ) deal since we have been already using "events" all the time, we used to call them hit types. If we look at it from…

Now that Universal Analytics deprecation has been officially announced, it's time to start writtingsome technical posts about how things works on Google Analytics 4. First one, is going to be about how Cross Domain Tracking works, ( not only for GA4 but also for any GTAG.JS based tool ). Back in time (about three years ago) I noticed a new "_gl" parameter being attached to some links by Google…

This past February, I attended to the SuperWeek Conference in Egerszalók / HU, where I decided to participate on the Punchcard Prize with a new tool that I had been using interally over the past years. The only difference is that I used to use it with some command line interface and for releasing it I build my first Window application ever ( beside an NFO Viewer for an European demogroup back in the years ).…

It took me almost a year ( once again ) to have a new version, but this time I did the things properly, I’ve restarted the tool totally from scratch, I re-did the dev environment, I re-coded the detections code, I changed the CSS Framework, I updated the JS backend. There have been hundreds of commits, hundreds of hours , and so much fun and learning in the process. If you ask me the main features beside the more accurate reporting are the new Preview…