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9 years ago
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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 ...
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  • GilbertQ's avatar
    GilbertQ
    9 years ago
    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.
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Anonymous
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8 years ago

Try doing same may be on couple other metrices like Session, and seperately for pageviews.

If you are getting accurate results then you might have to live with the results in terms of users.

 

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CyndeeB
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8 years ago

Hi there,  i have done that and the results are the same for both Sessions and Pageviews, except for Users - i am still out.  Is this because Power BI is reading the user information differently to how GA reads it?

 

Is there no way to get this data as per GA into Power BI then?

 

  • ALRUYOYO's avatar
    ALRUYOYO
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    8 years ago

    Hi CyndeeB,

    This missmatch from GA happens because you measure users on a daily basis, where in GA it measures for the whole period.
    Example:
    same user visits website every day for a week. That will give 7 users from daily perspective and 1 user from weekly perspective.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    8 years ago

    I guess you cant match exact users.