Connect Data from Google Analytics to Metabase
You can get your Google Analytics data into Metabase to make more informed business decisions. This simple and quick guide gives you easy instructions on how you can extract your data from Google Analytics and then analyze it in Metabase. Our Google Analytics to Metabase connector allows you to access your Google Analytics data so you can easily manage various media objects, view metadata, and comments, and get reliable insights and metrics, such as reach, impressions, follower-like ratio, and likes. Integrate your Google Analytics with Metabase to turn your Google Analytics data into actionable insights.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics (GA) is a free web analytics service. The application is great as it provides statistics and several basic analytical tools for marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) purposes. Google Analytics allows website owners to thoroughly analyze their visitors, with the main objective of interpreting and optimizing their website’s performance.
The data offered by Google Analytics is designed particularly for marketing and webmasters. This data helps them gauge the quality of traffic they receive and the effectiveness and efficiency of their marketing efforts. Google Analytics inserts several lines of code in your website’s code for this purpose.
You do not have to install any hardware or software in order to install it as the application is cloud based. Some of the features of GA are data visualization tools, custom reports, and integration with many other Google products, like Public Data Explorer and AdWords.
Metabase
Metabase is one of the simplest ways to get your data in front of anyone on your team. Metabase, an open-source BI tool, offers easy way to generate both charts and dashboards, see in-depth information about rows in your database and ask simple ad hoc queries without having to use SQL. Metabase installs in just a couple of minutes and can work with a variety of databases, such as MySQL, Amazon Redshift and PostgreSQL.
Lightweight, incredibly fast, and free, for people who want to visualize and query, Metabase lets its users save queries and also add their favorite visualizations to a convenient dashboard. Metabase uses machine learning for analyzing the data it collects and recommends how you can design more effective marketing campaigns.
Extracting data
Before loading your data into Metabase, you will have to prep it first. If you don't already have a data structure in which to store the data you retrieve, you'll have to create a schema for your data tables. Then, for each value in the response, you'll need to identify a predefined datatype (INTEGER, DATETIME, etc.) and build a table that can receive them.
Google Analytics documentation should tell you what fields are provided by each endpoint, along with their corresponding datatypes.Complicating things is the fact that the records retrieved from the source may not always be "flat" – some of the objects may actually be lists.
In these cases you'll likely have to create additional tables to capture the unpredictable cardinality in each record.
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Preparing data
You can retrieve data programmatically through the Google Core Reporting API. It is available to all users who use the platform. By leveraging Improvado, you can easily and quickly integrate, connect, and see all your GA data flow into Metabase. Follow the API documentation, and you will enjoy access to endpoints, like impressions, CTRs, and CPC.
Loading data
As long as you can bring your data to Metabase, this amazing software will help you in analyzing it. You have the option to connect various data types from Facebook Ads and Google Analytics to Crate and Mongo, etc. All you have to do is simply specify parameters to connect to Metabase and data warehouse and then select the data that you want to replicate.
With Improvado, you can ensure that you always have the latest data from all your cloud applications in the data warehouse. In most cases, you would like to organize your data in the warehouse a little differently than in a cloud app. You may also want to make a schema for OLAP or just have target tables for the data you have already created. If that is the case, you can use our amazing data import tools.
With flexible configuration and powerful mapping settings, our import tool allows the loading of data between data sources of varying structures.
Keeping data up to date
If you've made it this far, congrats! You probably have a written a program or script to extract your data and move it into Metabase.
Now it's time to think about how you will keep this data up-to-date by loading updated or new data. Of course, you can just replicate all your data every time you have updated your records, but that would be extremely manual and time-consuming.
Luckily there is a better way. The key is building your script so that it can sense incremental updates made to the data.
Thankfully, Google Analytics API results include fields so that you can identify those records which are new since the last update you made (or since the most recent record you have copied). Once you have taken new data into consideration, you can easily set your script either as a continuous loop or cron job to pull down new data as soon as it appears.
The Easiest And Fastest Way To Do It
If all this sounds a bit overwhelming, don't worry -- there is an easier way to get this done!
Thankfully, products like Improvado were developed to move data from Google Analytics to Metabase automatically. Using Improvado, you can easily combine the most crucial and relevant data from your social media ad campaign into a dashboard. You can then connect this data to Metabase.
