Google Analytics Pageviews suddenly incredibly low
We implemented Cookiebot early November. It has seemed to work fine for almost a month and then suddenly our 10k/day pageviews dropped to 100/day overnight The only change we made since launch was to implement Google Consent mode. But the drop off does not seem to correspond to when we made that update.
I honestly have no idea where to start to troubleshoot this. Has anyone seen something like this happen? Is there something I should look for?
I appreciate any help. Thanks.
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Hello.
I would definately direct you towards creating a ticket in our helpcenter, with added details on the domain, preview to your GTM setup and instances of the changes made/or when the data shifted.
It will enable us to investigate the specifics more directly and with greater data to understand the shift.Comment actions -
We are currently investigating this issue alongside Google to see what is causing this.
I would recommend all of you to create a ticket in our helpcenter with the specifics of your domain and the numbers that you are missing, providing us with more feedback and enabling us to pint point the issue in more detail. -
Hello everyone.
At this time we are still investigating the issues with Google Consent mode and our own findings have been forwarded to Google, so they can see what is happening.
With Google Consent mode active, you will not see any data from your analytics. The issue is directly linked to Google Consent mode and this means you can remove the feature for now until we have a fix in place. -
We just implemented Cookiebot and launched to experience this issue. Have been trying to fix for 5 days... and after painstaking research we finally came across this ticket. So, darn.
Found this
"You may change the values of ad_storage and analytics_storage to 'granted' and set ads_data_redaction to 'false' if you want to default to an opt-in before the end user has submitted consent, for example allowing for a default opt-in under CCPA."
here: https://support.cookiebot.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016047000-Cookiebot-and-Google-Consent-Mode
Has anyone tried that?
We may give it a shot, otherwise, we'll follow Kasper's recommendation and remove Google Consent mode.
Additionally, the documentation should be updated to clarify that Google Consent mode impacts all users, not just those users targeted with the consent dialog.
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Hi Dave,
Google Analytics should function as it normally would if you set both ad_storage and analytics_storage to 'granted' and set ads_data_redaction to 'false'.
Do note though that if a visitor opts-out of cookies, that these standard settings will be updated to 'denied' and 'true' respectively. In the caser of an opt-in, these values remain unchanged.
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