A new dimension and metric update was made in v4.23.0 of the Google Analytics Pro Connector for GA 4 Reporting queries.
Author: Mike Sullivan
ERROR…(429) Too Many Requests
Since the conversion of the Free Google Analytics connector over to use the newer v4 Reporting API, the project has started hitting it’s API server quotas. This affects all users of the connector and results in a 429 error — Too Many Requests. Further attempts on the same day are fruitless — the quota resets at […]
Google Analytics 4 API: First Impressions
A lot of us have enabled the new Google Analytics 4 tracking in parallel to our GA (Universal Analytics) implementation, and are in the ‘playing around mode’. With the latest update of the Analytics Edge connector for Google Analytics (Pro), you can now access the new Data API (v1alpha) — available as “GA 4 Reporting”. […]
Google Analytics 4 Reporting with Analytics Edge
Now available — the Analytics Edge connector for Google Analytics (Pro) now includes the ability to make GA 4 queries!
Google Analytics Bot Traffic – 2021 Edition
It’s Back! Sigh…. Google Analytics was hit (hard) with a spike of bot traffic on January 30th, 2021, after 3 years of virtually eliminating it on their platform. To a lot of people, this is new stuff, but since I wrote the original Definitive Guide to Removing Google Analytics Spam article, I thought I should […]
Analytics Edge Notices
2021-01-05 Google Analytics Timeouts: FIXED 2021-01-12 The Google Analytics Free connector continues to be modified to try to better handle timeout problems with the GA API server while Google works on a fix. The most recent update (4.18.3) will retry the query 3 times if needed, but it may cause Excel to hang for periods […]
Google Analytics Timeouts
UPDATE: As of 2021-01-12, this problem at Google appears to be fixed. — Google has confirmed there is a problem with the Google Analytics Reporting API v3, used by the Analytics Edge ‘Google Analytics Free’ connector. After several iterations, the latest release (2021-01-04, v4-18-2) has been optimized to retry the query a couple of times […]
Update Required by Jan 4, 2021
Analytics Edge Connectors for Google AdWords and Google Search Connectors Updated 2020-12-22 – NEW RELEASES AVAILABLE Google will discontinue support for sign-ins to Google accounts from embedded browser frameworks, starting January 4, 2021. Older versions of the Google AdWords connector and Google Search connector use an embedded browser in the login process. The latest releases […]
Analytics Edge Version 9 Released
The latest release of the Analytics Edge Core Add-in for Microsoft Excel is out — now with full support for high-definition monitors! No more squinting to see tiny fonts or tweaking resolution settings that degrade the clarity of your screen.
End of Support: Analytics Edge Basic Add-in
DEADLINE Sept. 1, 2020 – on this date the Analytics Edge Basic Add-in [and Analytics Edge Standard Add-in] will be unable to get a new license key. License keys could be required after a Windows update or hardware change. This is due to a server upgrade that no longer supports the encryption algorithm used in […]