GA4 Data Delay： Data Freshness

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After using Google Analytics 4, many users should feel that the data delay in Google Analytics 4 is longer than that in UA.

What is Data Delay?

Data freshness is used in GA4 to describe data delay.

Data freshness is how long it takes Google Analytics to collect and process an event from your property. If that process takes 20 minutes, then data freshness is 20 minutes.

Data Delay Rule

Google Analytics allows for a data processing delay of 24-48 hours. During that time, data may change, so reports may not be consistent when viewing the last 24-48 hours in an account.

The delays of different reports are as follows:

Interval	Typical processing time	Properties	Data limits per property	Query coverage
Realtime	Less than 1 minute	360, Standard	None	Limited to a few dimensions and metrics
360 intraday	About 1 hour	360	Premium Normal and Premium Large as defined	All reports and API queries, except these
Standard intraday	4-8 hours	Standard	Standard Normal	All reports and API queries, except these
Daily	12 hours	360, Standard	Standard, Premium Normal	All reports and API queries
Daily	18 hours	360, Standard	Premium Large	All reports and API queries
Daily	24+ hours	360, Standard	Premium XLarge	All reports and API queries

Solution

BigQuery：Export the data to BigQuery in Streaming export , allowing you to get the data of the day in a few minutes in events_intraday_YYYYMMDD table.

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What is Data Delay?

Data Delay Rule

Solution

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