Expected advantages of DFY UA backup services

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Time: 2-4 hours per view, including visualization

Estimated cost: $10,000 or more per view

You can receive a bespoke solution that is customized to your needs.
No learning curve, because your agency will do the work for you.
Solution can be stored in BigQuery or another next-generation cloud database.
You get what you pay for, and these services usually have customer service built in.
Possible disadvantages of outsourcing UA backups
You will need to make choices on what data you want to keep.
Your reports will be custom, which means unproven.
No matter how much data you back up, you are still bound by the limits of the GA API, so not all data can be backed up.
Complicated to access raw backup data if stored in BigQuery.
Ownership questions on who owns the data chinese overseas australia data that is backed up: your company or the agency.
Ongoing costs to maintain the database storage if choosing BigQuery.
So far, we looked at UA backup solutions that are not provided by Google Analytics itself.

Let’s have a look at how they score.

5. GA API to Google Sheets Connection
The GA API allows you to load data from Google Analytics into Google sheets. This is a handy way to extract specific data instead of using the GA interface. It is also one method to back up your UA data.

For whom is this solution?
The GA API is a good UA backup solution for anyone who is familiar with importing GA data to Google Sheets. Just make sure the data of the view you want to back up is not too big and that you have a lot of time.