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GA4 Measurement Protocol in Maintenance Mode: What Changes and When the Data Manager API Is Worth Switching To

2026-08-24 (No comments yet)

Google put the Measurement Protocol into a finalized state in June 2026: no deprecation, no new features. The Data Manager API takes over, with OAuth instead of an api_secret, several destinations per request and encrypted identifiers – and an allowlist in front of it.

Data Blending in Looker Studio: Joins, Metrics and the Traps in Between

2026-08-23 (2 comments)

How a blend really works — aggregate first, join second — what each of the five join types does, why one extra dimension can multiply every number, and why summing a metric across several properties needs the field renamed before the arithmetic can be trusted.

Google Tag and Tag Manager Merge: Destinations, the gtm init Trigger and What the Loading ID Decides

2026-08-21 (2 comments)

Google is merging the Google tag and Tag Manager: containers gain destinations, new snippets drop the config command, and a release note from 9 July 2026 makes the loading ID decide what the container may do. The upgrade is optional; the ID is not.

GA4 Conversion Lookback Window: How the Free Setting Changes Counted Conversions and Period Comparisons

2026-08-20 (No comments yet)

Since 11 August the conversion lookback window is any integer rather than one of six presets. Changing it changes how many conversions get reported without anything having happened, and it splits the history at the day of the change.

GA4 Change: “Source Group” Dimension Applies Retroactively – Facebook Affected

2026-08-19 (No comments yet)

GA4 gained a Source group dimension on 11 June 2026 that folds facebook, fb and m.facebook.com into one value, retroactively and without any tag change. It tidies the source list – and leaves channel grouping exactly where it was, because channels never read the raw source in the first place.

GA4 AI Assistant Channel: Which Visits It Counts and Which Land in Direct

2026-08-18 (2 comments)

GA4 has had an AI Assistant channel since May. It reports every session that arrived carrying a referrer from a recognised assistant – which, by the available counts, is the smaller half of the traffic in question.

gtag(‘set’) in practice: handing a User ID to a Google tag that has already loaded

2026-08-16 (2 comments)

A late-arriving User ID does not require a second config call: one gtag(‘set’) command hands the value to a Google tag that is already running, and every following event on the page carries it. The article covers scope precedence, the Tag Manager route including the gtagSet template API, and the parallel case of Consent Mode.

GA4 Measurement Protocol: Server-Side CRM Offline Conversion Integration

2026-08-16 (2 comments)

Technical guide on integrating offline CRM and POS conversions with GA4 sessions via server-side Measurement Protocol POST payloads, identity resolution, and delay handling.

GA4 BigQuery Cost Optimization: Stopping Budget Burn on Raw Exports

2026-08-15 (2 comments)

Technical guide on optimizing GA4 BigQuery export costs by eliminating wildcard SELECT queries, implementing table suffix partitioning, clustering, and scheduled incremental tables.

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