Google Analytics Puns

Personal Data Authority warns of possible ban on Google Analytics

The Personal Data Authority is warning that the use of Google Analytics "may soon no longer be permitted. It does so after a ruling by the Austrian privacy regulator. The AP wants to make its own final conclusion in early 2022.

The new text is in a guide for the privacy-friendly setting of Google Analytics that the AP has published. The regulator has added an update to that since Thursday, warning that the use of Google Analytics "may soon not be allowed. The AP does this after a ruling by the Austrian privacy regulator. That concluded earlier this week that the use of Analytics violates the AVG because the tool collects cookie data unnecessarily and sends it to the US.

The Personal Data Authority says that it is also still investigating the use of the tool in the Netherlands. It is doing so in response to two complaints. "Upon completion of that investigation, in early 2022, the AP will be able to say whether Google Analytics is now permitted or not."

It is striking that the AP is so anticipating an investigation and issuing such a warning. Normally, the regulator says nothing about ongoing investigations. Also, a violation of the AVG does not immediately mean that the use of a tool must be banned; for example, Google could make adjustments, as it did previously after an investigation into the use of Google Workspace for Education.

What are your thoughts on this?

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Hi folks,

Firstly, I just wanted to wish everyone here a Happy New Year and all the very best for the rest of 2022! Hopefully, this year brings everything you ask and strive for!

So like the title states, I'm in my mid thirties and looking for a new career change into the world of Data Analytics. It seems like a promising job role with plenty of opportunities where I live (Edinburgh, Scotland) which is great to see.

Now for a little backstory. When I first left University, I started my IT Career in Software Testing which I continued for 6 years between two global IT organisations. After 6 years, an opportunity came along that I felt was enticing at the time. I left the Software Testing field all together, and moved abroad where I started a small e-commerce business. Sadly, things never worked out as I had hoped and I ended up getting screwed by my business partner. The aftereffects from that were soul destroying and it took a big hit on my overall confidence and general enthusiasm for IT. For the past 2 years, since the Covid outbreak, I've been working in construction. The moneys piss poor, but I needed something stress free to get my life back in order. Thankfully, the break away from anything stressful has done me the world of good and I'm keen to get back involved in a completely different sector.

After doing some research during the Xmas holidays, I've been hearing great things about the newly offered course by Google for Data Analytics - Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate. The one other option I've read good things about is the Data Anaylsis with Python Course offered by the Free Code Camp (FCC).

What I'd like to know is which of these would be more beneficial as far as trying to line up my first ever entry job as a Data Anaylst? Since I'm completely new to the world of Data Analytics, I figured the Data Analysis course by the Free Code Camp would be great to get started. My biggest issue with this course though is that there's no official certificate that I get given at the end of it so I'd be unable to stick it down on my CV when it comes to job hunting. With the Google Data Analytics Certificate, I'd be a certified Data Analytics Professional at the end of it. Obviously, the one drawback with the Google Certificate is it's a paid course, whereas the FCC Course is completely free.

Can

Has anyone here taken the data analytics google cert and secured a remote entry-level job because of it? I’m thinking of taking the course in order to have a start in data analytics but would like some real reviews on it.

Would this be advisable for someone in the EU to help improve and secure job offers from American companies?

Thanks!

ETA: Are there any other data analytics courses that are more valuable and available online? Price doesn’t matter as long I can complete it online and it’s available for EU citizens.

Has anyone done any of the Google Certificates? I'm planning on doing the data analytics certification and was wondering if anyone had any advice or any luck using these skills in your current role or if it set you up for an entry level position in the field you picked. I currently work in HR as a HR specialist and plan to finish my associates in business so I thought this would give me some good exposure to data analytics and giving me some options for a new job with my current experience.

Hello folks 💐

For the last few months I have been working on privacy-focused, regulation-compliant (a.k.a. no cookie consent banners are needed) Google Analytics alternative. It started as a Golang learning exercise but I believe managed to get something useful at the end :)

And today, it is live on Product Hunt. I would love to hear your thoughts about the product and also, your support on Product Hunt would mean a great deal 🙏

PoeticMetric on Product Hunt

Hi! I'm a developer interested in implementing an analytic tool for some little no-profit projects (under 1k visits per month). I have tried services like Matomo and Pirsch but no one of those services offer a free plan for under 10k visits.

However as you may know Matomo offers a free self hosted solution, so my question is what could be the cheapest non devil shared server solution? (I don't have a personal server).

thank you:)

Long story short, I graduated with an unrelated degree (Strategic communications) but did some ad tech projects that involved a bit of data analysis. I got the certificate soon after to grasp hard skills such as SQL, Spreadsheets, Tableau, R, etc., and want to pursue a career in Data Analytics/Science.

During my job search I was able to grab the attention of a pretty big company for an entry-level Operations Data analyst role I studied so hard and went into detail about the skills I had but after a month and a half and 5 interviews I learned they decided to hire someone who majored in data analysis instead (sucks but it's understandable.)

It seems that the competition is pretty tough, especially since I only have the data certificate and my major doesn't really delve too deep into data. So my question is, what are some things I can do to stand out to employers (specific projects, portfolios, added skills, etc.)? Are there specific skills I need to emphasize more as an aspiring data analyst?

So It's my frist time making a web, ads ..etc. But I can't understand when 1400 people watched 20s of an ad and 1800 people clicked to visit the web. But my avarage average session duration is 2 seconds?Is this a possibly a bug or something else? Please I'm really lost at this point to what I need to do.

More statistics:

Video ad of 30s. Reach 17584. Link clicks 1819. Video average play time 0:09s.

Video play at's: 100%-1041. 75%- 1384. 50%-1754. 25%-2275.

CTR(all) 6.8%. Frequency 1,2. Quality ranking: average. Engagment rate ranking: Above average. Conversion rate ranking Above average. P.S. 0 sales

I swear I recall betty white dying back in the early 2000's mainly because of shows like golden girls and that 70's show paying tributes to her. I stopped watching TV around 2012 - 2013 and I distinctly remember this happening once before. I even remember my mother mentioning a comment mom the other day "huh, that's weird seeing a picture of Ryan Renyolds with betty white I thought she was dead" my mother even commented and anytime I try to convince her of the mandela effect she always plays it off and doesn't want to believe its a real thing and looks for any reasonable explanation on why she might have forgotten or weird effects.

A friend brought up Plausible in a conversation a few days ago. I've been looking for an alternative to Google Analytics for quite some time (main concerns are performance, avoiding ad blockers & browsers that block client-side analytics, and UX of the admin). There's a self-hosted option, so I spun it up on a Digital Ocean server (found some great documentation; took maybe ~20 minutes), and wired up one of my sites with it -- typeitjs.com.

I have been incredibly pleased by this thing in the short time I've used it. It's lightweight, extremely intuitive compared to GA (including the UI, and even things like the custom event API), and super easy to proxy through my own domain (they even have dedicated documentation for it).

And to top it off, I ran some before/after Lighthouse reports and was kinda elated as a result. My performance score jumped by EIGHT POINTS with this single change. I was extra satisfied, since GA is one of those scripts that consistently pops up in Lighthouse a thing I should address.

Like I said, I've only used the tool for a short time, but I've been so blown away that I can't shut up about it. If you're looking for a GA alternative like I was, give it a shot. If you're not into self-hosting, there's a paid version as well.

We just received an email to accept the new Google Analytics Terms of Service.

We went to the Firebase Analytic Dashboard (as shown below), we do have the button to click it.

Firebase Analytics Dashboard Top Part

But before clicking we like to know what the new terms are. I try clicking Learn More, it is just a page https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/10960488 and nothing was mentioned about the new term.

I google search for the “Google Analytics Terms of Service", we reach this page https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/ where the term is dated at “Last Updated June 17, 2019”.

We are lost in finding where the new Terms are.

Can anyone please assist? Thank you!

Hi. Im an experienced advertiser but very new to google ads. I’m having some early success but I have a couple questions I was hoping someone may be happy to share some experience on. If this isn’t the right place for this feel free to delete.

So I have my Google Ads account set to use conversion data from Google Analytics (as I’m sure most of you all do as well) and I am noticing some discrepancies.

For starters, Google Ads consistently shows about 10-15% less conversions than GA in general both in large and small windows.

Secondly, google analytics shows steady sales coming in throughout the entire day. Google ads on the other hand shows updated spend, click and impression data throughout the day but often 0 sales the entire day until the next day. It’s like there is a lag, but since the data pulls from GA shouldn’t it be the same?

Third thing is that while the conversion data pulls into Google Ads, the conversion value does not. Just shows as 0 when in reality GA is tracking the real value.

So I guess my question is, is this typical of how Ads & analytics interact? Does it sound like my account setup could be wrong? Any insight appreciated.

Ps: I did not have anything to do with the implementation of this account, It was created before I was hired to manage it. I’m not really on the technical side of this.

Anybody have personal experience or have come across a case study?

Edit: I work for a tech-adjacent company that conducts research for tech companies about tech companies. Our product is the research. I work for the marketing department so I’m not directly involved in the UX of the product, I am involved in the UX of our marketing site. I mainly do design and content updates but would LOVE to make myself more valuable using existing tools. We use Google Analytics, CrazyEgg and Marketo.

Is there anyone here who knows how to run a Facebook campaign who could help me set up and run a test campaign for a side project I want to try?

I'm not currently in a place where I can pay someone to do this, but in return I can help you with your Google Ads/ GTM / Google Analytics as payment - Almost like a skill swap..

Thanks

If someone provides me with access to pull up their site in Google Analytics, but them doing that doesn’t also give me access to pull up their site in Google Search Console, does that mean the site isn’t set up in Google Search Console?

Or do you sometimes (or all of the time) have to provide permissions for Google Analytics and Google Search Console separately?

> 3. Install Google Analytics in WordPress Theme

> This method is for advanced users who are familiar with the code. It is somewhat unreliable because your code will disappear if you switch or update the theme. We almost never recommend using this method.

They suggest adding google analytics through a plugin called monsterinsights(which I learnt from searching this sub that it is filled with bloatware). What should I do?

Hi everyone. I’m currently a senior in college studying finance and business analytics. My goal is to become a data analyst and land a solid job after graduating this May. I do have previous internship experience as a Business Intelligence intern and currently I work as a Data Analyst Intern at an accounting firm. Im just wondering if I should get this certificate to push myself as a more well rounded candidate. Also I was reading about all the opportunities that this certificate opens up. Is this certificate worth it for the opportunities? Any reviews or advice is appreciated thanks!!

Just had to switch my domains and thus, everything on the old copy of my site, is being redirected to its clone on the new domain. Im now trying to figure out how to analyze my traffic. How does 301 redirect traffic appear in google analytics?

I have to admit that I haven't confronted myself with Google Analytics much yet. I use the Google Search Console for all kind of obvious things, but I havent done anything with Google Analytics so far. But I would like to dig deeper into that now and therefor want to ask you guys, for someone from a SEO perspective, how/where in Google analytics should I start?

I want to watch YouTube, there is an opt out Google Analytics add on provided by Google itself, which stinks. In LibreWolf, are the Google Analytics opted out of by default? How can i opt out of? There are other "unofficial" extensions but i don't trust them either. Any ideas?

Have a situation where there were two of the same GSTs tracking on a website, 1 directly coded into the website’s global header and the other being tracked in Google Tag Manager. The one on the website was removed so now it is just the Analytics tag being tracked in Tag Manager. Since this change was made, Google Analytics shows pageviews have declined and bounce rate has sharply increased. Did some research and it looks like this is what typically happens with duplicate tags. Just curious what the affects are with duplicate tags on a site?

Hi guys

I started my new website 2 months back but I do not link my website to google services in fact I sign in to google console and analytics a couple of days ago - my question is "is google start ranking after I have set up google console and analytics or is it take even some days to index?

I have 32 articles on my website and only 3 out of 32 articles got indexed by google.

Your thoughts on behalf of google indexing will help me to grow my site - Thanks!

Hello, as the title suggest, 43% of traffic is lost in Ezoic Analytics. Is this normal?

For example, Pageviews in October:

• Ezoic analytics: 11,298 pageviews
• Google Analytics: 26,036 pageviews

Anybody have any tips or solutions to this?

I know this isn't r/analytics, But I felt it was worth asking.

Is this certificate worth getting if I want to pursue a career in finance? I don't think it could hurt me, but I just want to make sure it's not a waste of time if I'm going to learn those skills anyway. (I'll be starting school in the spring full time for a BS in Finance)

I ask this because I started playing a game on steam that I haven't played in a long time and all of a sudden I got Youtube video recommendations for that game. The timing seemed really sus.

I assume Steam doesn't sell your data to Google and my steam account is public not private so I wouldn't be surprised if their algorythm noticed it. But as far as I'm aware Google shouldn't be able to associate your Steam account with your Google account.

So I'm wondering if i'm onto something or if I'm just grasping at straws. In the end I did watch videos of that game before on Youtube and Youtube might have decided to recommend them again to me for no real reason.

Hi, I have added the Google Analytics 4 code to my WIX website. Will I also be able to see the Universal Analytics info (the older version of GA) or just this new one? Thanks

Anything I've seen on google describes the small differences between the two trackers but a 60 fold difference is rather extreme. It's a wordpress site using Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights, and for this month so far Google tells me 123 users, 157 sessions. Awstats tells me 7,645 visitors, 28k pages.

One of them has to be extremely wrong? First instinct would be the google plugin but it's partially working at the least, so I don't know what the issue could be.

Any help is much appreciated

edit: I guess I should have looked more closely. Awstats is showing about 23k page visits for /wp-cron.php and /wp-login.php and a couple others. However, real pages are probably still close to 10x what google is telling me