Google Sets Deadline for Universal Analytics

How does this impact you? 

• GA4 data is structured in a way that is foundationally different from GA3. We recommend running both GA3 and GA4 in parallel for as long as possible to understand how those differences will impact your website engagement and marketing performance reports (as well as how to interpret them). 
• The historical data in Google Analytics can often provide useful insights, and there is no way to migrate it into GA4. We recommend investigating a system that can easily import and store that data in case it is useful for analysis in the future. Don’t know where to start? We can help.

What can you do to minimize impact?

If your company relies on Universal Analytics to measure, analyze and/or report on website or marketing channel performance, it is critically important to plan and implement a migration strategy. We saw this coming and have beta tested a marketing analytics platform that ensures data backups, accurate reporting, and improved features over GA. We recommend one of two approaches:

1. Get GA4 running in parallel with GA3 as soon as possible
2. Get GA4 running as soon as possible. Then, upgrade your marketing analytics stack to include our reporting solution that can import historical data, has data parity with GA, built-in heat mapping, session recording, deep form conversion analysis capabilities and more.

We’ll be publishing more information in the coming months, so get in touch to make sure you are the first to learn more about this upgraded analytics solution!

John Morgan

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