Articles in The 'Service provider' Tag


August 7 2020

Restore Service Provider to Google Analytics

by Theo Bennett

As we reported earlier this year, the deprecation of the Service Provider dimension on February 4th, 2020 broke a key method of fighting bot traffic in Google Analytics (GA). Some organizations also have dependencies on the service provider dimension outside of just fighting bots.

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July 13 2020

Clear Google Analytics of Bot Traffic Using User Agent

by Theo Bennett

As we reported earlier this year, the deprecation of the Service Provider dimension on February 4th, 2020 broke a key method of fighting bot traffic in Google Analytics (GA)

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March 10 2020

Google Analytics Loses Service Provider Dimension

by Theo Bennett

Like the October 8, 2011 announcement that Google would begin to stop the practice of passing a user’s organic search term to Google Analytics; the deprecation of the Service Provider dimension on February 4th, 2020 may live on with similar disdain. While we mourned the loss of the search keywords data that helped value our SEO efforts; at least there was a reason – better security and privacy.

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