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Various IDs in Google Analytics 4

Google Analytics BCS 4 years ago (2021-05-16) 500 Views 0 Comments

Update time: Dec 25, 2024

Account ID

ID

Example

Account ID

69988360

The account ID in Google Analytics, if your Tracking ID is UA-69988360-1, then the Account ID is 69988360

One account can create 100 properties.

 

Property ID

ID

Example

Property ID

UA-69988360 Or 206759202

Property ID, media resource ID, is a string of numbers, such as 249945720, which is only available in GA4.

if your Tracking ID is UA-69988360-1, then the Property ID is UA-69988360

 

Tracking ID

ID

Example

Tracking ID

UA-69988360-1

The tracking ID is a string like UA-69988360-1, It must be included in your tracking code to tell Analytics which account and property to send data to.

The first set of numbers (69988360 in the example above) refers to your account number, and the second set of numbers (1) refers to the specific property number associated with the account.

View ID

No more View IDs.

ID

Example

View ID

111552585

 

Measurement ID

ID

Example

Measurement ID

G-HZ4RDGTX66

 

Stream ID

ID

Example

Stream ID

1510089723

 

Client ID

ID

Example

Client ID

1197596843.1673515099

Client ID consists of random number and timestamp:

Various IDs in Google Analytics 4

1197596843.1673515099 composed of 1197596843 and 1673515099 is what we usually call Client ID.

 

User ID

ID

Example

User ID

abc123

Note: User ID cannot contain PII information.

 

Google Signal

This is Google’s ID system, you can’t see it.

 

Container ID

ID

Category

Example

Container ID

Google Tag Manager

GTM-MQ8Z6H

Google Optimize

GTM-MABC8Z Or OPT-N9SP69Z

 

FPID

The full name of FDID is First-party device IDs, which is actually an ID managed by the user server. It is also the first-party Cookie ID.

Various IDs in Google Analytics 4

Read more:FPID: First Party Device ID

 

 

Effective user ID

Effective user ID only exists in GA4 User Explorer:

Various IDs in Google Analytics 4

The display logic of Effective User ID is:

  • If User ID is deployed, User ID is displayed
  • Otherwise, Device ID is displayed
    • For APP:Device ID is Instance ID
    • For Website:Device ID is Client ID
      • For Client-Side Tracking, Client ID is a random number plus a timestamp, eg: 1262312975.17103315909
      • For Server-Side Tracking, Client ID is two strings of characters plus a timestamp, eg: F99Fd7gVuQuP93MZdJiEn07o/eZba6j9bAt8ETLsn8E=.1733280703

The Effective user ID corresponds to the user_pseudo_id field in BigQuery.

Read more: What is 「Effective user ID」 in GA4 ?


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