This article outlines recommendations and notes certain limitations imposed by the data source API, which you may need to consider when building your queries.
If you are connecting to this data source, please follow the instructions in our connection guide, and the available fields for this connector are listed in the metrics and dimensions documentation.
Request limits and recommended refresh rate
Request limit: Rate limits may differ depending on which part of the API data is requested from:
Google My Business API:
1200 Insights requests per minute
3000 v4 General requests per minute
My Business Business Information API:
50,000 updates per day
1,000 creates per day
2,000 GoogleLocation calls per day
1,000 requests per minute per project
My Business Account Management API:
300 requests per minute
Recommended refresh window: 2-3 days
Historical range
There are no known limitations to the historical range of data you can pull with the Google My Business data source connector.
Accounts in Google My Business
In the Google My Business connector, each Location is considered a separate account within the connection.
Your Supermetrics subscription determines the number of data source accounts you can use simultaneously.
Things to consider
Time zone
Time zones may affect your query results; for example, if the location is in Europe/Helsinki and your destination uses UTC as a default time zone, there may be discrepancies in your results. If available, adjust the time zone in your data destination to match the time zone of the location from which you’re fetching data to resolve discrepancies.
Average review star rating
This metric is date range sensitive and will return no results if there are no reviews within the selected timeframe of your query.
Search breakdown per keyword
You can get the Search terms breakdown by selecting the Monthly search impressions metric together with the Search term dimension. Note that this only returns monthly data and can’t be broken down by date. Due to delays on the data source API, the data is usually available after the month's end, so querying for the current month will likely return no data.