Hi,

My Amazon affiliate links confirm that there are visits, but GA since yesterday has been showing 0 for all properties, anyone experiencing the same?

I was working on a Google Ads account where I set up separate purchase conversion actions for client-side tracking, server-side tracking, and offline conversion tracking.

I compared the reported results over the same three days: 26 to 28 August 2026. Here are the numbers I recorded:

→ Server-side tracking: 160.76 conversions
→ Offline conversion imports: 153.00 conversions
→ Server-side + offline: 223.36 conversions

The combined conversion action reported 38.9% more conversions than server-side tracking alone. The interesting part was deduplication.

Adding the two individual figures gives 313.76 conversions, but the combined action reported 223.36 after accounting for overlapping purchases using transaction IDs.

So the two sources were not contributing entirely unique conversions. This is why I don't think comparing conversion counts alone is enough to evaluate a tracking setup.

I'd want to validate the results against actual backend orders, check transaction IDs, compare conversion values, and confirm that the conversion actions are configured appropriately.

One thing I'm still interested in discussing is how others approach this comparison.

When comparing client-side, server-side, and offline purchase tracking in Google Ads, how do you validate which conversions are genuinely additional versus already captured by another source?

I documented the account comparison in CMnT for anyone interested in the setup

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to set up GA MCP with Claude however I can't install homebrew because I have an Intel-based Macbook and it's no longer supported. Are there any alternatives to homebrew out there that I can use?

I'm using Macbook pro 2019 MacOs Sequoia

Thanks in advance!

Hi

I have a new website that uses Stripe Checkout Session for the payments. In case you aren't familiar with the flow: the user places an order on our website, gets redirected to Stripe's secure payment page, makes the payment and then gets redirected back to the success page on our website.

Under "Traffic Acquisition", this is what I see:

1. (direct) / (none)
2. l.instagram.com / referral
3. tagassistant.google.com / referral
4. google / organic
5. chatgpt.com / ai-assistant
6. checkout.stripe.com / referral
7. instagram.com / referral
8. ig / social
9. (not set)
10. m.facebook.com / referral

Should I somehow exclude checkout.stripe.com / referral?

What do you recommend? Thanks

Hi everyone, me and my client cant reach daily reports snapshot for 20 hours, it says there is no data. everthing seems zero.

when the real-time data (last 30 mins) is flowing without problems. i can see that there is traffic, actions and conversions.

I have checked filters, gtm and pixels and everything seems okay. can you help?