Regex in GA4: How to Use Regular Expressions in Google Analytics 4 for Reporting and More
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- Ready to use some regular expressions in Google Analytics? Then you've come to the right place with this this guide to GA4 regex. Let's rock and roll!
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Great video! You're a great teacher. Thank you!!!
That's really encouraging. Thank you, Deepak. Have a great one!
Very helpful! Just a clarifying note about slashes. This is a forward slash: / and this is a backslash: \ .
Stephen, thank you on both fronts! I have been guilty of that before and I'm grateful for the thoughtful correction.
Team work. :)
When building the segments, is matches regex case sensitive?
How do I create a report in GA4 that displays traffic for a specific set of pages using regex? For instance, we have a section of our website titled "Model Practices & Innovations" that contains approximately 20 pages. I need a report that only displays traffic for those 20 pages. Also, I was able to create this report using GA UA.
Do all pages have the same folder structure? For example, yoursite.com/practices-and-innovations or something like that?
If so, I'd create a new Exploration (Explore from lefthand navigation and then create a new exploration).
When you select your dimensions, you'll need to at least choose "page path and screen class". Then, create a filter and filter based on that same dimension. You should be able to set a filter based on the "contains" condition and enter the part of the URL that all 20 of your pages have in common (for example /pages-and-innovations).
If you don't have a consistent subfolder, then try a "matches regex" condition and you could manually enter all 20 of the page paths. You'd need to use the vertical pipe symbol (|) between each, as this means "OR" in regex.
2 resources that might help:
1.) Here's info on how to add dimensions and metrics to Explorations
www.rootandbranchgroup.com/ga4-explorations/
2.) Check out the section "How to Use Regex in GA4 Explorations" in this blog below to see the filtering portion with regex
www.rootandbranchgroup.com/regex-for-ga4/
Best of luck!
Hi can you explain how I connect TH-cam to google analytics 4 .
Hi Salwa, unfortunately we can't connect TH-cam to Google Analytics 4.
If you want to see your TH-cam traffic in GA4 (from clicks on links in TH-cam that go to your website), you could either use the Source / Medium traffic report or you could use UTM parameters if you wanted to do it manually.
Best of luck to you.
@@rooted-digital thank you
@@salwaradwan you're welcome (wish I had better news for you).
@@rooted-digital thank you for your interest but I understand do you mean to make a campaign to track my videos
can i use google tag manager ?
Very informative but you are saying forward slash when you are referring to a back slash and vice-versa
You are right! Thanks for the catch.
I bet I've been making that mistake for the majority of my adult life. Sheesh.