Why connect analytics as well as ads
Ad platforms grade their own homework. GA4 is where you find out whether the conversions each platform claims actually show up in the same place your revenue does — which is the single most common source of bad budget decisions.
- Traffic and conversions by channel, source and campaign
- Funnel and path analysis to find where visitors drop out
- Ecommerce reporting: revenue, transactions, AOV, cart and checkout behaviour
- Attribution paths, so you can compare GA4 against what each ad platform reports
- Audience creation and custom dimension management
Connect the property
GA4 uses the same Google OAuth screen as Google Ads. If you connect both with the same identity, one authorisation covers both.
Connect GA4 with the same Google identity you use for Google Ads. Splitting them across two identities is the usual reason one connects and the other does not.
Representative tools
ga4_overviewga4_channel_performancega4_list_propertiesga4_audit_property_settingsga4_create_audiencega4_create_custom_dimension