GA4 tracking

Hm, something seems wrong. In my dashboard insights it says 2 visitors in real time but the actual number is 80+. What is going on?

Edit: Ah, I need to enable “use Google Analytics 4 data to generate reports and stats” ??

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by danniee001.

Edit: Ah, I need to enable “use Google Analytics 4 data to generate reports and stats” ??

To display GA4 reports you need to enable the above option.

Ga4 displays stats very differently. Is that your experience too? Like real time stats…in UA it was last 5 min or live, with GA4 is last 30 min so the number becomes much larger.

That’s the way GA4 realtime reports work.

Ok, so I am not doing anything wrong and this is normal? And UA tracking will stop working soon?

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by danniee001.

Another question if I may. In the old UA, I could see load time. In GA4 I don’t see this anymore. Is it gone?

Also, it doesn’t properly track stats at all. It’s totally wrong. Says 2000 page views when there should be around 15k and stops tracking today at 3 am for some reason. Yesterday it didn’t start tracking until 7 pm. It’s unusable?

Hi, if you’re looking at today’s stats there are bigger delays on reporting on GA4 than GA3.

Ok, I am not quite sure what that means and how that will present itself but the stats for yesterday and today don’t make any sense at all.

I switched back to GA3. Will this continue to be supported or will GA3 stop?

It will stop tracking on July, here are the details: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/11583528?hl=en

That’s a shame. GA4 doesn’t track as good imo. It doesn’t give me avg load time and doesn’t even seem to track properly.

I just don’t get it. GA3 worked fine but not GA4. It just stops showing stats a few hours into the morning and it’s just empty and page views or session etc does not update. But when I look in live report, I have 300 active sessions and loads of page/post visits.

As I was saying it’s simply a delay from Google API on reporting for GA4. That’s why in the other thread I was asking you if you’re 100% you’re tracking it wasn’t working or is just the reporting delay.

Ok, I see. And how long do these delays go on, or will it always be like this? Thanks for responding and sorry for the multiple threads. I got a bit confused myself.

It will probably always be like this, these are the new time-frames, SLA, or whatever. Keep in mind that Google Analytics is a free service after all. The paid version of Google Analytics as far as I know has shorter delays, but that’s not free.

No worries about the threads, we’re all here to help out.