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Google analytics to Power BI - counters mismatch with adding new metrics and dimensions
I am working on GA reporting metrics in Power BI via reporting API. While I create a query with some very basic attributes like sessions and users, I get same values as I can see directly in google ...
- Hi there I have had the same issue. And it appears to be because you are using the GA cube that when you put in certain metrics it is cross referencing the data, which causes the numbers to inflate.
What I did was to have different queries where the data matches GA.
It did take me some time to read through the GA definitions to understand what the one value was which was causing the numbers to inflate. As soon as I put those metrics into their own query (table) everything matched back to GA.
GilbertQ
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Super UserHi there I have had the same issue. And it appears to be because you are using the GA cube that when you put in certain metrics it is cross referencing the data, which causes the numbers to inflate.
What I did was to have different queries where the data matches GA.
It did take me some time to read through the GA definitions to understand what the one value was which was causing the numbers to inflate. As soon as I put those metrics into their own query (table) everything matched back to GA.
What I did was to have different queries where the data matches GA.
It did take me some time to read through the GA definitions to understand what the one value was which was causing the numbers to inflate. As soon as I put those metrics into their own query (table) everything matched back to GA.
- Thanks GilbertQ for sharing your similar experience and advice. Yes, I am trying to do same, though it involves lot of hit n trial.
The GA documentation is not very helpful in this regard.Hey, i am trying to do the same thing and am not getting the correct value for Users.
I have tried to pull the User data alone with only a date range. The number is closer to what it should be, but still isnt correct what else can i do to get the correct User value?
The query you are trying to run should give correct values. Though in terms of users I always get little bit of disperity, but try doing the same with sessions and you should get exact values.
Issue arises when you combine User based vs session based metrics ie say Users & sessoin in one query.
In your example, Try running similar query (just users & time) in GA to see how much difference you are getting - though it should be pretty clode.
