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It stops short of the openness of a self-hosted tool with unrestricted schema access — everything ultimately routes through Google's event model and infrastructure.","Google's infrastructure handles enormous traffic volumes reliably, but the tracking script is considerably heavier than purpose-built lightweight alternatives, and high-traffic properties can encounter sampling in ad hoc exploration reports unless the account is upgraded to GA360 for unsampled data.","Google Analytics is the dominant web and app analytics platform by a wide margin, used by the large majority of websites globally and treated as the default choice by marketers, agencies, and stakeholders. 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