GOV.UK GA4 summary tables

Tables of high-level summary metrics are generated from the partitioned_flattened_events table where there is a need to reduce query costs. A list of available tables is below.

Access

Everyone with a @digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk email address (all GDS staff) has access to the data by default.

In addition, everyone who requests and is granted access to the GOV.UK GA4 data will be given access to query this flattened dataset. More information can be found in our GA access policy.

Available tables

Table	Content	Location
Page Summaries	A table that groups by event date and page location and provides a range of summary metrics. The summary metrics are things like page views, sessions, entrances, exits, searches and page usefulness	Link to page_summaries
Navigation Events	A table that is grouped on a number of fields (event_date, event_name, cleaned_page_location, canonical_url, link_domain, link_url, type and outbound) and filters for navigation, information_click and file_download events. The purpose of this table is to create a dedicated table for tracking link clicks (internal and external) on the gov.uk site. The table also includes two summary metrics: a count of the number of times a particular navigation event happened and the number of sessions it happened in	Link to navigation_events

Retention

At present, there is no default table expiry set up for these table, and no agreed data retention period.

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