You Have Google Analytics. Here's How to Actually Use It.
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You Have Google Analytics. Here's How to Actually Use It.

Most people with access to Google Analytics fall into one of two camps. The first camp never opens it. The second opens it regularly, stares at the numbers, and closes it without knowing what to do next. Neither camp is getting value out of the tool. GA4 is dense, the default reports surface a lot of data without much context, and if nobody walked you through it, landing in the interface cold is genuinely disorienting. This is the walkthrough nobody gave you.

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Why We Don't Recommend Button-Level Tracking in Google Tag Manager (And What to Do Instead)
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Why We Don't Recommend Button-Level Tracking in Google Tag Manager (And What to Do Instead)

Tracking every button click on your site sounds like a reasonable way to understand user behavior. In practice, it tends to produce cluttered analytics, fragile implementations, and data that's hard to act on. There's a better approach — one built around the moments that actually indicate user intent rather than every interaction that happens to be trackable. Here's why we steer clients away from button-level tracking in Google Tag Manager, and what we recommend building instead.

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