My Step-By-Step Blueprint For Learning and Mastering Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

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Last Updated: August 26, 2021

Through ‘In-page Analytics‘ you can determine how users interacted with your website in terms of the links/elements they clicked on a web page.

Through this insight, you can assess your CTA (call to actions) and other on-page elements (like buttons, important internal links, internal banners, etc) in terms of driving traffic to other parts of your website.

One of the biggest advantages of in-page analytics is that you no longer need to add tracking code here and there, throughout your website, to track clicks on different web page elements.

Now the issue with the ‘In-page Analytics’ report is that 9 out of 10 times, this report does not launch and you see the following error message:

When you click on the ‘Load in Full View’ button, you see the infamous Error: 20010 (Access denied. Please try relaunching In-Page Analytics from the report.) in your browser window:

We tried to launch in-page analytics from the report first. But that didn’t work.

So we clicked on the ‘Load in Full View’ button which loaded in-page analytics in a different browser tab but then we got another error message: the error: 20010.

There does not seem to be any escape from this infinite loop of insanity.

This is a bug in Google Analytics and it has been there for almost a decade now. There are forums threads on this issue which date as far back as Aug 2011.

A lot of suggestions have been made over the years, regarding how to fix this issue. But they all seem to fail to address the real issue which is causing the in-page analytics report to fail to launch.

This issue is related to login.

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Follow the steps below to successfully launch GA in-page analytics report in your browser:

Step-1: Navigate to the ‘Admin‘ section of your Google Analytics view.

Step-2: Click on ‘Property Settings‘ link:

Step-3: Scroll down the page, turn the toggle switch under ‘Use Enhanced link attribution‘ to ‘ON‘ and select ‘Full View mode‘ under ‘Start In-Page Analytics in‘ section:

Background information about enhanced link attribution

By default you can’t see separate click through information for multiple links on a web page, that all have the same destination URL.

Similarly, by default you can’t see click through information for on-page elements like buttons, menus and actions driven by JavaScript code.

To use all of these features you need to use Enhanced Link Attribution feature in your analytics account.

Step-4: Click on the ‘Save’ button.

Step-5: Add the following line of code to your Google Analytics tracking code:

ga(‘require’, ‘linkid’);

This code loads the plugin required for enhanced link attribution.

So your final Google Analytics tracking code may look like the one below:

<script>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i[‘GoogleAnalyticsObject’]=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,’script’,’https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js’,’ga’);

ga(‘create’, ‘UA-XXXXX-YY’, ‘auto’);

ga(‘require’, ‘linkid’);
ga(‘send’, ‘pageview’);

</script>

If you use Google Tag Manager, then edit the tag which you use, to deploy Google Analytics tracking code on your website and set the ‘Enable Enhanced Link Attribution‘ field to ‘True’:

Step-6: Install Page Analytics (by Google) extension in your Google Chrome browser and make sure it is enabled.

Step-7: Once the ‘Page Analytics’ extension is installed and enabled, close all Google applications (including the ones which are open in incognito mode) except Google Analytics.

Step-8: Now logged out of all of your Google Accounts. This is an important step.

9 out of 10 times, in-page analytics does not work because of this very reason.

Note: Make sure you are not logged into multiple Google accounts (including via incognito mode in your Chrome browser) at any time, while using the in-page analytics report in GA.

This can stop the in-page analytics from working and and you may also see the following error message, while trying to access the ‘in-page analytics’ report:

Step-9: Log back into your Google account.

Step-10: Login to your Google Analytics account and then navigate to the main view.

Step-11: Select the date range for which you want to see the in-page analytics data.

Step-12: Navigate to Behavior > ‘In-Page Analytics’ report in your GA view:

Step-13: You are again going to see the error message ‘Error: 20010 (Access denied. Please try relaunching In-Page Analytics from the report.) in your browser window’:

You see the message because, though ‘page analytics’ extension is installed and enabled, it is not switched on.

Step-14: To switch on ‘page analytics’ extension, click on its icon, which is located, next to the address bar, in your browser window:

The web page will now reload.

Step-15: You will now see the real-time box, just below the error message ‘Exit’ button:

This message box is the first sign, that your ‘in-page analytics’ report is actually working. But you will, still not see all of the in-page analytics data yet.

Step-16: To see all of the in-page analytics data, click on the downward double arrow in the ‘Real-time’ box as shown below:

You will now see all of the ‘in-page’ analytics data:

Step-17: Click on the ‘Exit’ button at the top right to close the error message (which will continue to display otherwise). This will not close your ‘in-page analytics’ report.

Without the yellow error message at the top, your in-page analytics report will look like the one below:

Step-18: Hover your mouse over any orange box to see detailed statistics:

Step-19: Browse your website, like you normally do. Scroll up and down a page, click on a link to navigate to another page. Whenever a new page is loaded, the corresponding in-page analytics data is automatically loaded for that page.

Note: In-page analytics works, only on internal links. It does not work for external links (links that point to other websites).

Step-20: Once you have looked into the ‘in-page’ analytics reports, click on the icon of the ‘page analytics’ extension (next to the address bar in your browser window) again, to turn it off: