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Getting GA4 data into BigQuery, understanding its schema, querying it effectively, and building analytics infrastructure on top of it.

Setup & Reference

How to Set Up the GA4 BigQuery Export

A step-by-step guide to enabling the GA4 BigQuery export — what to set up in GCP, what to configure in GA4, what you get when it's running, and the decisions that matter before you start.

GA4 BigQuery Schema Explained: A Practical Reference

A practical reference for the GA4 BigQuery export schema — what every column contains, how to access nested fields, and the SQL patterns you'll use in almost every query.

GA4 BigQuery Export Discrepancies: Why the Numbers Don't Match

GA4's interface uses modelled, sampled, and processed data. BigQuery exports raw unsampled events. The two will never match exactly — here's the complete explanation.

Tools & Decisions

BigQuery vs Supermetrics for GA4: When to Use Each

Supermetrics and BigQuery are not competing tools — they solve different problems. An honest comparison of what each does well, what each costs, and how to choose.

Content Analytics & Engineering

GA4 BigQuery Query Patterns for Content Publishers

Practical BigQuery SQL patterns for content teams and publishers — article performance, scroll depth, referral sources, return visitor rates, content velocity, and more.

Tracking Readership Across a Large Blog Network with GA4, Google Sheets and BigQuery

How to combine data from multiple GA4 properties to track daily readership, detect record-breaking days, and identify which sites in your network are actually growing.