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- Are you making this common mistake in GA4 reporting?
Are you making this common mistake in GA4 reporting?
Many marketers do not consider all the relevant referrers when reporting the performance of a marketing channel or they do not consider grouping referrers as "ongoing maintenance work".
GA4 can report the performance of a marketing channel via several different referrers, and the number of such referrers often increases or changes when you use user-defined traffic sources/mediums (via UTM parameters).
For example, GA4 can report traffic from Facebook via several referrers:
m. facebook. com, lm. facebook. com, facebook. com, Facebook. com, FACEBOOK. com, facebookk. com etc.
But GA4 will not automatically consolidate all this data and report it to you as Facebook traffic.
You would need to do this manually by identifying