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GA4 audit at analyst depth.

The 61-check audit a senior consultant would run on day one — Foundation, Data Accuracy, Measurement, Privacy & Security, Optimization. Run on demand, then re-checked every night so it never goes stale.

By hand
1–2 weeks of analyst engagement at $150/hr
With the audit
60 seconds
Why it's painful

A proper GA4 audit is the part of every analytics engagement nobody does often enough. The reason is simple: it's unglamorous, time-intensive, and the ROI is invisible until something breaks. A senior consultant charges 10–20 hours against it. An in-house analyst puts it off for the quarter you need to run it in. Meanwhile the configuration rots — a tag update here, a CMS migration there, a new marketing hire adding conversion goals without a naming convention. Six months in, your GA4 property is carrying silent data quality debt that's compounding into every report. The audit surfaces all of it on the first run, then keeps watching every night so the next regression doesn't go six months without anyone noticing.

How the audit handles it
  • Runs 61 automated checks across five weighted chapters: Foundation (10%), Data Accuracy (30%), Measurement (25%), Privacy & Security (20%), Optimization (15%). Produces a weighted health score out of 100.
  • Critical cap on the score: any CRITICAL-severity finding locks the ceiling at 59, so the score honestly reflects that a single compliance gap outweighs a dozen optimization wins.
  • Every finding includes the business impact in plain English, the exact GA4 admin menu path to the fix, and where relevant a code snippet or dataLayer push.
  • Pro users get a Gemini-written executive summary, prioritized action plan, copy-paste code fixes per finding, and a chat panel to ask follow-up questions grounded in the audit.
  • The full audit archives with its score, findings, and timestamp — the score-trend chart appears as soon as there are three audits to draw a line through.
Real audit checks
Every check below is a real rule in our audit engine — not a marketing bullet.
Data streams exist and are active
Internal traffic filter configured
Enhanced measurement enabled
PII in URL parameters scan
Attribution model
Sample finding
What a real audit report looks like for this chore.
Warning

Internal traffic filter not configured

Business impact

Staff traffic from the office network and developer machines is polluting the same property as real visitor data. Expect 3–8% upward drift on sessions and downward drift on conversion rate. Bounce rate and session duration metrics are skewed on any page the team visits regularly.

Recommendation

In GA4 admin → Data Streams → [stream] → Configure tag settings → Define internal traffic, add your office IP range(s) and any known developer subnets. Then enable the "Filter internal traffic" option in Data Settings. Takes 5 minutes.

Hire a web analyst. Or install one.

GA4 audit is one of 10 high-stakes chores the agent covers end-to-end. Your first audit is free — and the agent keeps watching every night, so the next time ga4 audit drifts, you hear it from us before it costs you.