Event Tracking
Measuring specific user interactions on a website or app — clicks, form submissions, video plays, scroll depth, file downloads. In GA4, every user interaction is modelled as an event rather than a pageview.
How Event Tracking works in practice
GA4's recommended events — purchase, sign_up, generate_lead, begin_checkout — provide pre-defined schemas that integrate directly with Google Ads' Smart Bidding and Audiences, maximising the value of conversion data. Custom events (named with snake_case verbs describing the action: 'trial_started', 'report_downloaded') should be used for business-specific interactions that standard schemas do not cover. Consistent event parameter naming — using standardised dimensions like event_category, content_type, user_tier — makes analysis significantly easier as the data volume scales. Sending events server-side via GA4 Measurement Protocol or GTM server-side container improves data completeness by bypassing ad blockers and browser-level tracking restrictions.
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Google's current analytics platform built on an event-based model, replacing the session-based Universal Analytics. GA4 integrates with Google Ads, supports cross-platform (web + app) tracking, and uses machine learning for predictive insights.
A tag management system that lets you deploy and manage marketing and analytics tags on your site without editing code. GTM speeds up tracking implementation, reduces developer dependency, and centralises tracking governance.
The process of measuring actions that matter to your business — purchases, leads, sign-ups — and sending that data to ad platforms to evaluate performance and power automated bidding strategies like Smart Bidding.
Mapping and measuring the sequential steps users take toward a conversion goal. Funnel analysis pinpoints where users drop off so optimisation effort is directed at the highest-impact bottlenecks.
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