Purchases by day on tablet - GA4 BigQuery

With Google Analytics 4 (GA4), you will now be able to store your data in Google BigQuery which opens up lots of interesting possibilities with your data. Ask questions of your data with SQL.

Query: What are the purchases by day on tablet?

select
event_date AS date,
sum(ecommerce.total_item_quantity) as total_purchases
from `bigquery-public-data.ga4_obfuscated_sample_ecommerce.events_*`
where event_name = 'purchase' 
and _TABLE_SUFFIX between '20210101' and '20210107'
and device.category = 'tablet'
group by event_date
order by event_date asc

Output:

Notes:

• This query can be improved to include dates which have zero purchases on tablet devices.
• All queries reference the BigQuery sample GA4 data set. You can try this for free and Google provides a substantial free credit.
• The dataset contains data from 1 Nov 2020 to 31 Jan 2021.
• You will need to update the data source if you want to use this query with your own data.
• You can update the date range to suit your needs. I have chosen 1 Jan 2021 to 7 Jan 2021 for this example.
• Occasionally the results may not line up perfectly when querying this sample dataset.

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