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Why is Google Analytics so freaking difficult?
Posted by Chritt on September 28, 2025 at 1:21 pmJust everything. Setting it up. Reading it. Reports. I
It just doesn't click in my head. Am I just an idiot?
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yekedero
GuestSeptember 28, 2025 at 1:26 pmYou can try Looker Studio or StatsCounter.
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ClickCompare
GuestSeptember 28, 2025 at 1:31 pmNo, you’re not an idiot. It used to be much more user friendly. For some reason, a few years ago, Google decided to make it almost unfathomable. I still find it weird that they went out of their way to make a tool LESS usable.
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surfnsound
GuestSeptember 28, 2025 at 1:34 pmNo, it was so much easier prior to GA4. They essentially made it easier and better for power users, but unnecessarily complovated for over 90 percent of website operators who just needed the basics that UA offered seamlessly.
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teheditor
GuestSeptember 28, 2025 at 1:52 pmThey transformed it from a dumpster fire into a train carrying flaming dumpsters to a flaming dumpster dump that was on fire, while on fire. In other words: please don’t use our free service to identify where your traffic comes from and what it’s looking at. Keep giving us all your ad dollars or F***off!
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team72k1
GuestSeptember 28, 2025 at 2:04 pmThe harder Google makes it for people to rank and bring in traffic, the more likely people will end up paying for Google ads.
Google is evil!
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shahnewazfahim
GuestSeptember 28, 2025 at 2:09 pmIf you are, im in the tribe as well. i think it was ok until the universal analytics, was not an expert but i could get the job done. now i think the only good way to use GA4 is to have a really good looker studio made, i just switched to third party ones.
Does it hurts to pay another subscription for every month?
– yes.Will i ever go back to ga4?
– heck no!Edit: im using user maven currently, so far so good, theres plenty more out there, pick what works for you. i stick with it for the pricing and ease of use.
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zodwallopp
GuestSeptember 28, 2025 at 2:09 pmUniversal was so easy. GA4 just needs a pro UX/UI team to go in there and fix it. It’s current interface is hot garbage.
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Cardanko
GuestSeptember 28, 2025 at 2:18 pmI really want AI to be added to GA4 so I can just tell it what I want to track on my website, they scan my code and it would just automatically start.
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IulianHI
GuestSeptember 28, 2025 at 2:38 pmPice of crap analytics 🙂 Never use GA
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Reasonable_Elk_6009
GuestSeptember 28, 2025 at 2:40 pmLooker studio will make your life so much easier with customizations
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alexseif
GuestSeptember 28, 2025 at 2:55 pmsecond that. it used to be so so so much easier
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Confident_Nail_5254
GuestSeptember 28, 2025 at 2:59 pmQuite possibly the worst “update” Google has ever made.
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leoferrari2204
GuestSeptember 28, 2025 at 3:11 pmUse posthog, you are gonna be happiper. Generous free tier, beautiful website and easy to use
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Virtual-Frosting-507
GuestSeptember 28, 2025 at 3:16 pmIt depends on how hard the problem is. Set up your analytics and visuals to match.
For small sites that need to check things quickly, GA4, pageviews, 2–4 conversions, and a one-page dashboard are all you need.1. For marketing and growth, add UTMs, GTM events, funnels, and reports on channels and conversions.
For optimization, you can use custom dimensions, BigQuery export, cohort LTV, attribution, and A/B tracking.
2. For businesses, there are data warehouses, CDPs, BI tools, governance, and predictive models.Decide by the decision: say what question you need to answer, choose the level that gives you that information, set up the fewest events needed to test the hypothesis, make one chart to prove or disprove it, and then repeat.
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Helpful__Variation
GuestSeptember 28, 2025 at 3:19 pmJust ask AI to give you instructions on how to do whatever you want to do. You’ll learn it this way. That’s how I did it and I know find it relatively easy
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