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Google Analytics Module for Nuxt 2
https://google-analytics.nuxtjs.org/
MIT License
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Google Ads says that my Google Analytics account is misconfigured and is underreporting visitors #118

Open ivan-rivera opened 3 years ago

ivan-rivera commented 3 years ago

I'm not sure if my problem has anything to do with this module, but I thought it's worth checking it.

I've recently launched a Nuxt web app and after following the tutorial on nuxt/google-analytics I opted for the most basic setup:

googleAnalytics: {
    id: process.env.GA_UA_ID,
    autoTracking: {
      screenview: true,
    },
  },

If you actually want to look at my code, then you can find it here.

It works and I can see my visitors in my Google Analytics dashboard. After putting a $150 Google Ads voucher to good use, I can see about 70 clicks per day but according to Google Analytics, I'm only averaging 2-3 daily visitors. I'm inclined to believe that Google Ads is more reliable because I already have about 10 registered users, so if Google Analytics is right, then my conversion rate is very impressive (it probably isn't!). I've received an alert on the Analytics page saying that there is a significant discrepancy between Ads and Analytics and that it may indicate that my Analytics account isn't correctly configured. Since my entire Google Analytics setup was based on nuxt/google-analytics I thought that I should at the very least raise this concern here, however, it is also possible that it is completely unrelated.

Please let me know if there is any more info that I could share to troubleshoot this.

Any thoughts or opinions would be appreciated!