Difference Between Google Analytics And Google Analytics 360
Google Analytics 360 (or GA premium) is one of the tools provided by Google Marketing Platform.
GA 360 is the paid version of Google Analytics which is meant for big companies which can afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars on an analytics tool(s).
In the context of GA premium, the free version of Google Analytics is called ‘Standard Google Analytics’.
Following are the 18 key differences between Google Analytics and Google Analytics 360:
#1 Standard GA integrate with other standard versions of Google products (like: Google Ads, Google Adsense and Google Search console). Whereas ‘Google Analytics 360’ integrate with both standard and 360 versions of Google products (like: ‘Google Ad Manager 360′, ‘Display & Video 360′, ‘Search Ads 360′ and ‘Campaign Manager‘ etc).
#2 Standard GA is best suited for native remarketing integrations with Google Ads. Wherease Google Analytics 360 is best suited for native remarketing integrations with Google Ads and Display & Video 360.
#3 Standard GA account can not be natively integrated with CRM like ‘Salesforce’ or data warehouse like ‘Google BigQuery’. Whereas Google Analytics 360 can natively be integrated with ‘Salesforce’ and ‘Google BigQuery’.
#4 Cross-property roll-up reporting is available only in Google Analytics 360 and not in standard GA.
#5 Advanced, customisable funnel reporting is available only in Google Analytics 360 and not in standard GA.
#6 Advanced attribution modelling (including data-driven model) is available only in Google Analytics 360 and not in standard GA.
#7 Advanced analysis is available only in Google Analytics 360 and not in standard GA.
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#8 You can create a maximum of 25 views in a standard GA property. Whereas in Google Analytics 360, you can create a maximum of 400 views per property.
#9 You can create a maximum of 20 custom dimensions and 20 custom metrics in a standard GA property. Whereas in Google Analytics 360, you can create a maximum of 200 custom dimensions and 200 custom metrics per property.
#10 GA standard does not guarantee data freshness and it could be 24 hours or longer. Whereas Google Analytics 360 guarantee data freshness of up to 4 hours.
Data freshness is how long it takes Google Analytics to collect and process a hit (pageviews, screenviews, events, ecommerce, social, user timing, exceptions) from your property, and then make the data available via the Google Analytics interface or API.
If that process takes 1 hour, then data freshness = 1 hour.
#11 You can’t rely on Standard Google Analytics for large amount of data processing and high accuracy. Google Analytics 360 can handle websites which get 500 million+ hits /month as opposed to just 10 million hits per month supported by GA standard.
#12 The data sampling limit of Google Analytics 360 is approx. 200 times than that of standard GA which means you get more unsampled data in Google Analytics 360 than in GA standard.
#13 In case of GA Standard, the sample size for Ad-Hoc Analysis is 500,000 sessions. Whereas, in case of Google Analytics 360, the sample size for Ad-Hoc Analysis is 100 million sessions. What that means, GA 360 does not begin sampling the analytics data until a report exceed 100 million sessions.
#14 In case of Google Analytics 360, you can download unsampled reports via the user interface or the API. This is not possible in case of standard GA.
#15 In case of standard GA, you can export maximum of 5000 rows of data. Whereas in case of Google Analytics 360, you can export maximum of 5000 rows of 3 millions rows of data.
#16 Access to raw data is available only in Google Analytics 360 and not in standard GA.
#17 Access to dedicated support specialists, analytics training and on-demand customised reporting is available only in Google Analytics 360 and not in standard GA.
#18 Standard GA is free to use. Whereas Google Analytics 360 is paid service which comes with service level agreement and guarantee that covers: data collection, data freshness, data reporting, higher data processing limit and access to dedicated support specialists.
Google Analytics 360 customers are invoiced monthly and the billing is based on hit volume.
Analytics 360 suite can cost you at least $150,000 per year.
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Google Analytics 360 (or GA premium) is one of the tools provided by Google Marketing Platform.
GA 360 is the paid version of Google Analytics which is meant for big companies which can afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars on an analytics tool(s).
In the context of GA premium, the free version of Google Analytics is called ‘Standard Google Analytics’.
Following are the 18 key differences between Google Analytics and Google Analytics 360:
#1 Standard GA integrate with other standard versions of Google products (like: Google Ads, Google Adsense and Google Search console). Whereas ‘Google Analytics 360’ integrate with both standard and 360 versions of Google products (like: ‘Google Ad Manager 360′, ‘Display & Video 360′, ‘Search Ads 360′ and ‘Campaign Manager‘ etc).
#2 Standard GA is best suited for native remarketing integrations with Google Ads. Wherease Google Analytics 360 is best suited for native remarketing integrations with Google Ads and Display & Video 360.
#3 Standard GA account can not be natively integrated with CRM like ‘Salesforce’ or data warehouse like ‘Google BigQuery’. Whereas Google Analytics 360 can natively be integrated with ‘Salesforce’ and ‘Google BigQuery’.
#4 Cross-property roll-up reporting is available only in Google Analytics 360 and not in standard GA.
#5 Advanced, customisable funnel reporting is available only in Google Analytics 360 and not in standard GA.
#6 Advanced attribution modelling (including data-driven model) is available only in Google Analytics 360 and not in standard GA.
#7 Advanced analysis is available only in Google Analytics 360 and not in standard GA.
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#8 You can create a maximum of 25 views in a standard GA property. Whereas in Google Analytics 360, you can create a maximum of 400 views per property.
#9 You can create a maximum of 20 custom dimensions and 20 custom metrics in a standard GA property. Whereas in Google Analytics 360, you can create a maximum of 200 custom dimensions and 200 custom metrics per property.
#10 GA standard does not guarantee data freshness and it could be 24 hours or longer. Whereas Google Analytics 360 guarantee data freshness of up to 4 hours.
Data freshness is how long it takes Google Analytics to collect and process a hit (pageviews, screenviews, events, ecommerce, social, user timing, exceptions) from your property, and then make the data available via the Google Analytics interface or API.
If that process takes 1 hour, then data freshness = 1 hour.
#11 You can’t rely on Standard Google Analytics for large amount of data processing and high accuracy. Google Analytics 360 can handle websites which get 500 million+ hits /month as opposed to just 10 million hits per month supported by GA standard.
#12 The data sampling limit of Google Analytics 360 is approx. 200 times than that of standard GA which means you get more unsampled data in Google Analytics 360 than in GA standard.
#13 In case of GA Standard, the sample size for Ad-Hoc Analysis is 500,000 sessions. Whereas, in case of Google Analytics 360, the sample size for Ad-Hoc Analysis is 100 million sessions. What that means, GA 360 does not begin sampling the analytics data until a report exceed 100 million sessions.
#14 In case of Google Analytics 360, you can download unsampled reports via the user interface or the API. This is not possible in case of standard GA.
#15 In case of standard GA, you can export maximum of 5000 rows of data. Whereas in case of Google Analytics 360, you can export maximum of 5000 rows of 3 millions rows of data.
#16 Access to raw data is available only in Google Analytics 360 and not in standard GA.
#17 Access to dedicated support specialists, analytics training and on-demand customised reporting is available only in Google Analytics 360 and not in standard GA.
#18 Standard GA is free to use. Whereas Google Analytics 360 is paid service which comes with service level agreement and guarantee that covers: data collection, data freshness, data reporting, higher data processing limit and access to dedicated support specialists.
Google Analytics 360 customers are invoiced monthly and the billing is based on hit volume.
Analytics 360 suite can cost you at least $150,000 per year.
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