In GA4, add the PubPulse service-account address (shown in Import Historical Data) as a Viewer of your property, then enter the GA4 property ID and a start date in PubPulse. The import runs on our side, stops the day before PubPulse started measuring, and can be removed at any time.
Steps
- In PubPulse, open Import Historical Data in the menu of your website and copy the address shown in step 1.
- In GA4, open Admin → Property access management, press + → Add users, paste the address, choose the Viewer role, untick "Notify new users" and press Add.
- In GA4, open Admin → Property details and copy the property ID (a number such as 412345678).
- Back in PubPulse, paste the property ID, choose the first day to import and press Start import. PubPulse checks the access straight away and tells you if something is missing.
The import runs month by month on our side and can take a while for large sites. You can leave the page; the table shows how far it has got. If Google's daily limit is reached, the import says so and nothing half-done is kept.
What is imported
| Report | Imported |
|---|---|
| Pageviews per page, with titles | ✓ |
| Sessions, users, bounce rate, session duration | ✓ |
| Sources and mediums (Google, direct, social, AI assistants, email) | ✓ |
| Countries, devices, browsers, operating systems | ✓ |
| Custom events and custom dimensions | – |
| Hourly detail and real time | – (GA4 gives one figure per day) |
The numbers per day match GA4. GA4 does not say which pages each visit saw together, so PubPulse rebuilds the visits so that every total matches; combinations GA4 does not give, such as page by browser, are estimates.
No day counted twice
The import always stops on the day before the first day PubPulse measured your site. If you imported a period and want it again with other dates, remove it in the table first.
Removing an import
Press the cross next to an import: those days disappear from every report. Your own PubPulse data is never touched. Imported history does not count against your plan's pageviews.
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