Connect Google Analytics and Meta Ads for your business

Google Analytics and Meta Ads each hold numbers the other never sees. askotter reads both and tells you, by text, what they mean together.

● Google Analytics · LIVE + ● Meta Ads · LIVE

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the short answer

What do you get by connecting Google Analytics and Meta Ads?

askotter reads Google Analytics and Meta Ads side by side and puts both in one report for the business. The owner sees how activity in one leads to results in the other, gets an alert when a number moves and can ask questions by text.

From Google Analytics: Sessions and pageviews, User demographics and geography, Traffic source and medium.
From Meta Ads: Campaign and ad set performance, Creative performance, Audience targeting data.
Status: Both connect today.
Not for: Replacing Google Analytics or Meta Ads. Both keep working exactly as they do now.

why connect them

Why connect Google Analytics and Meta Ads

GA4 visits sit beside your payments, bookings and ad spend. You see who came, who booked and where they came from. It fits into our GA4 setup work.

matching the records

How Google Analytics and Meta Ads records line up

Google Analytics and Meta Ads both report by page. URLs are normalised first (protocol, trailing slash and tracking parameters removed) and then joined page by page.

Google Analytics and Meta Ads both keep the UTM source, medium and campaign values from the visit, so activity lines up campaign by campaign even when no single person can be matched.

Shared between the two: the page URL and the UTM campaign tags.

What each tool sees on its ownShow less

Google Analytics on its own

GA4 sees what people do on the site. It does not see refunds, repeat purchases made offline, or the deal a lead turned into later.

Timing. GA4 collects events in near real time, and Google says standard reports can take 24 to 48 hours to finish processing.

Access. The GA4 Data API with read access to the property.

Meta Ads on its own

Meta sees who saw and clicked an ad. It cannot see a sale its pixel missed, and lead-form contacts stop being visible to it once they leave Facebook or Instagram.

Timing. Meta reports conversions under its own attribution setting, seven days after a click and one day after a view by default.

Access. The Meta Marketing API with read access to the ad account.

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questions

Questions about Google Analytics + Meta Ads

What can I learn by connecting Google Analytics and Meta Ads?

askotter puts Google Analytics and Meta Ads numbers in one report, so you can see where customers came from and why a number moved.

How does askotter connect Google Analytics and Meta Ads?

Live connections use a standard sign-in, and other tools use a file export. No developer is needed.

Is my data secure when connecting Google Analytics and Meta Ads?

askotter uses encrypted connections and role-based access, and you control who on your staff sees what.

Connect Google Analytics + Meta Ads. Five minutes.

Plans are on the digital marketing pricing page.

Self-managed is $99/mo and scales with the compute you use. Our team runs it from $600/mo.