Tips and tricks by Brian Shim for web developers, bloggers, and WordPress users
Here are my recommended Analytics plugins for WordPress whether based on Google Analytics or other. The Best Non Google Analytics Plugins With the shift from GA3 to GA4, Google frustrated a lot of users who just wanted a simple analytics dashboard and didn’t need the complex features that were added. In addition, since Google is … Read more
Here’s a cheat sheet on how to display referrer URLs (URLs of sites where someone clicked a link to get to your site) in Google Analytics 4. Like so many things in GA4, you need to create an Exploration to do this. 1. Log into Google Analytics and create a new Exploration Click the Explore … Read more
Google Analytics 4 has the ability to natively track outbound link clicks without the use of JavaScript or Google Tag Manager. Unfortunately, it makes you jump through some hoops to see the data. In the article, I’ll explain how to set up a Google Analytics 4 Exploration to track outbound link clicks on your website. … Read more
I was happy to find out that Google Analytics 4 can track file downloads. However, I didn’t find any native report in the interface to display the downloaded file names, other than for the last thirty minutes. It actually requires jumping through a lot of hoops to set up a report to do this. After … Read more
When I first started monetizing my websites using Google Adsense I was surprised that there wasn’t an obvious way to see which pages were generating my income. This seemed like a critical piece of information for any blogger or site owner! Of course, there is a way to get this information, but it not given … Read more
Let’s say you have two completely different primary domains, say, example.com, and purchase.com, and you want to track them as a single property on Google Analytics. For example, if a user goes from one site to the other, you want that visitor to show up on the same Google Analytics report and not count as … Read more