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I'm working on an iOS app which has a majority of chinese users, and I'm planning to use google analytics in my app, but I'm not sure whether I can get accurate data, since I'm not sure whether it is blocked.
So can I use GA in China? If not, what can be my alternatives?
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While Google Analytics can pick up data from people that visit your website without a problem, the website analytics.google.com is blocked in China. This means that any of your China-based staff will need to use a VPN to access it.
"The block is indiscriminate as all Google services in all countries, encrypted or not, are now blocked in China. This blockage includes Google search, images, Gmail and almost all other products.
One you have access to the internet on your phone and a reliable VPN installed and running, you should be able to log onto Google's homepage and use Google in China, including all services on your computer or phone without any problems!
According to GreatFire, Google Tag Manager is currently not blocked in China.
Google analytics is one of the only services from google that is not blocked. It will work most of the times but it can sometimes be slow to transfer data to google analytics. Lot of big chinese sites still use GA.
A better alternative could be to use Baidu Tongji(baidu analytics). It has less functions than google analytics but it still works great.
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