{"id":17215,"date":"2021-03-31T13:50:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T11:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/?p=17215\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T13:50:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T11:50:34","slug":"analytics-news-march-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/en\/analytics-news-march-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Analytics news &#8211; March 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Unwanted referrals \u2013 referral exclusion list in GA4<\/h2>\n<p>Finally, all website owners who need unified measurement across more than one domain can celebrate! Referral exclusion list is now available in Google Analytics 4 properties. Now you can set conditions that identify the domains whose traffic you don&#8217;t want to identify as referrals in Admin &gt; Data Streams &gt; Web settings &gt; More Tagging Settings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17277\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/unwanted-referrals.png\" alt=\"unwanted referrals GA4\" width=\"1497\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/unwanted-referrals.png 1497w, https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/unwanted-referrals-300x95.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/unwanted-referrals-1024x325.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/unwanted-referrals-600x190.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1497px) 100vw, 1497px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second way how to avoid referrers is to set ignore_referrer=true for individual events. You can control when you want to ignore a referrer by appending the ignore_referrer parameter to individual pages or events and setting it to true. Maybe this can be useful for certain situations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/answer\/10327750?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Support<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Report publishing in Google Data Studio<\/h2>\n<p>Report publishing allows you control if viewers see the changes you make to a report in real-time or not. By default, viewers see changes in real-time, but now you can change it. Report publishing lets editors work on a draft version of a report while viewers see the published version. When you&#8217;re ready to let viewers see the new version, you can then publish it. You can allow report publishing in <strong>File &gt; Publishing Settings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/report-publishing-gds.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1187\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/report-publishing-gds.png 1187w, https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/report-publishing-gds-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/report-publishing-gds-1024x319.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/report-publishing-gds-600x187.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1187px) 100vw, 1187px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A button for publishing a report will then appear in the upper right corner. Although no advanced options are currently available, such as versioning, but even now it is a significant step forward.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17212 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/report-publishing-button-gds.png\" alt=\"Data studio publishing report\" width=\"580\" height=\"61\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/report-publishing-button-gds.png 580w, https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/report-publishing-button-gds-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/datastudio\/answer\/10382047\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Support<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>If statement in Data Studio<\/h2>\n<div class=\"inline-feedback__container\">\n<div class=\"article-content-container\">\n<p class=\"\" data-outlined=\"false\">Conditional expressions evaluate some input and return a result when that input meets a condition specified by you. Google Data Studio now gives you 3 ways of writing conditional expressions in calculated fields: <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/datastudio\/answer\/7020724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Searched CASE<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/datastudio\/answer\/10471275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Simple CASE<\/a> and the new one &#8211; IF statement.<\/p>\n<p data-outlined=\"false\">IF statement is a powerfull feature. You don&#8217;t need any additional Google Sheets to do this type of calculation any more. You can use Parameters in your IF statements as well. And how does IF statement look like in Data Studio?<\/p>\n<div class=\"example\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"no-margin\"><code>IF(<em>Actual Sales<\/em>\u00a0&gt;\u00a0<em>Forecast Sales<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Bonus<\/em>\u00a0* 1.2,\u00a0<em>Bonus<\/em>)<\/code><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\" data-outlined=\"false\">Read more: Google Support<\/p>\n<h2>BigQuery API for server-side GTM<\/h2>\n<p>In the begining of March the BigQuery API for server-side GTM has been launched. What does it mean?<\/p>\n<p>That means you can connect a client directly with an endpoint \u2013 the Server container could be use as a data collection machine itself. There is no additional baypass (e.g. Google Analytics) needed. This topic is too complex itself, but we will publish another blog post about it soon. If you are interesting in it, let\u2019s check <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simoahava.com\/analytics\/write-to-google-bigquery-from-gtm-server-container\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Simo Ahava&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simoahava.com\/analytics\/write-to-google-bigquery-from-gtm-server-container\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Simo Ahava&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unwanted referrals \u2013 referral exclusion list in GA4 Finally, all website owners who need unified measurement across more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":17283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[763],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17281,"href":"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215\/revisions\/17281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dase-analytics.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}