[GA4] Enhanced measurement events

Enhanced measurement lets you measure interactions with your content by enabling options (events) in the Google Analytics interface. No code changes are required. When you enable these options for a web data stream, your Google Analytics tag starts sending events right away.

Before turning on the enhanced measurement feature, be sure you understand each option and what data will be collected. You can also turn off specific measurement options in settings.

You're required to ensure that no personally identifiable information is collected.

Enable or disable enhanced measurement

1. Sign in to Google Analytics..
2. Click Admin, and navigate to the property you want to edit.
3. In the Property column, click Data Streams > Web.
4. Under Enhanced measurement, slide the switch On to enable all options.
   Click to edit individual options as needed.

Events and parameters

The following table explains when events are triggered, and which parameters are collected for each event. You can find data about each triggered event in the Events report within the Engagement topic. Click the event name in the report for more information on the event.

Measurement option / event	Triggered...	Parameters
Page views page_view	each time the page loads or the browser history state is changed by the active site This event is collected automatically. You cannot turn off collection. An advanced setting on this option controls whether the event is sent based on browser-history events. This measurement option listens for pushState, popState, and replaceState. The event populates the Views metric. The parameters populate the following dimensions: Page location (from page_location) Page referrer (from page_referrer)	page_location (page URL), page_referrer (previous page URL)
Scrolls scroll	the first time a user reaches the bottom of each page (i.e., when a 90% vertical depth becomes visible) The event populates the Percent scrolled dimension.	No parameters are collected
Outbound clicks click	each time a user clicks a link that leads away from the current domain By default, outbound click events will occur for all links leading away from the current domain. Links to domains configured for cross-domain measurement will not trigger outbound click events. The parameters populate the following dimensions: Link classes (from link_classes) Link domain (from link_domain) Link ID (from link_id) Link URL (from link_url) Outbound (from outbound)	link_classes, link_domain, link_id, link_url, outbound (boolean)
Site search view_search_results	each time a user performs a site search, indicated by the presence of a URL query parameter By default, the event is triggered based on the presence of one of the following 5 parameters in the URL: q s search query keyword You can optionally configure this option to look for search terms in other parameters. The search_term parameter populates the Search term dimension.	search_term, optionally ‘q_<additional key="">’ (where <additional key=""> matches an additional query parameter you specify to be collected under advanced settings)
Video engagement video_start video_progress video_complete	For embedded videos that have JS API support enabled, the following events are triggered: video_start when the video starts playing video_progress when the video progresses past 10%, 25%, 50%, and 75% duration time video_complete when the video ends The parameters populate the following dimensions: Video provider (from video_provider) Video title (from video_title) Video URL (from video_url) Visible (from visible)	video_current_time, video_duration, video_percent, video_provider, video_title, video_url, visible (boolean)
File downloads file_download	when a user clicks a link leading to a file (with a common file extension) of the following types: document text executable presentation compressed file video audio File extensions that match the following regex will trigger the event: pdf|xlsx?|docx?|txt|rtf|csv|exe|key|pp(s|t|tx)| 7z|pkg|rar|gz|zip|avi|mov|mp4|mpe?g|wmv|midi?|mp3|wav|wma The parameters populate the following dimensions: File extension (from file_extension) File name (from file_name) Link classes (from link_classes) Link domain (from link_domain) Link ID (from link_id) Link text (from link_text) Link URL (from link_url)	file_extension, file_name, link_classes, link_domain, link_id, link_text, link_url