In a nutshell, Google Analytics is a service that enables website owners to measure traffic and user engagement on their websites. As part of every website hosting plan, Colophon New Media includes the Google Analytics service. Customers receive monthly reports, as well as direct access to this powerful platform.
Over the years Google has made continual modifications to Google Analytics to improve the usefulness of the data, and the ease with which users can access and share it. The legacy service called “Universal Analytics” is big and powerful and is used by hundreds of millions of websites. However, in early 2022, Google announced the introduction of Google Analytics 4, and that the data flowing through legacy Universal Analytics accounts will stop working starting July 1, 2023.
In anticipation of this change Colophon has been upgrading all accounts to Google Analytics 4 and the process will be complete by the end of January 2023.
After the July 1, 2023 Google Analytics users will be able to access previously processed data in Universal Analytics properties for a lease six months. The key to preserving the data will be export it and save it.
We feel it is important to point out that the new way Google presents data in GA4 is not as easy to read and interpret as the legacy system.
GA4 is more oriented to digital marketers where the data is presented based on “users” and “events” and not on a “session” and its related timeframe. An event is an action that a user takes. By focusing on events marketers are better able to predict user behavior.
Colophon has always provided monthly reports via another product called Google DataStudio. Using DataStudio we take the key metrics from website data and present in an easy to read format that is updated on a daily basis.
For more information about website hosting and Google Analytics, contact a web marketing expert at Colophon.
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