Updates on the Google My Business data source, including new metrics, dimensions, and other features.
June 2023
2023-06-28
New metric added:
Menu clicks
February 2023
2023-02-19
The following fields have been deprecated:
Customer media
Total customer media views
Media
Total media views
Photo
Photo views (customers)
Photo views (merchant)
Photos uploaded (customers)
Photos uploaded (merchant)
Total photos uploaded
Total photo views
Post insights
Post actions
Post views
Search
Branded search impressions
Direct search impressions
Discovery search impressions
Total search impressions
2023-02-01
The following fields have been added:
Bookings
Food orders
Messages
Monthly search impressions
Search terms
Total photos uploaded
Total search impressions
Views on maps (Desktop)
Views on maps (Mobile)
Views on Search (Desktop)
Views on Search (Mobile)
The following fields change their behavior slightly. These fields will keep returning values, but the values might be different before and after the change.
Directions requests
Phone calls
Total actions
Total views
Views on Maps
Views on Search
Website visits
April 2022
2022-04-07
The following field has been deprecated, please remove it from your reporting:
Followers
March 2022
2022-03-24
The data source has been updated to use the Business Information API.
Oct. 2021
2021-10-12
The following dimensions were added:
Review creation date
Review modification date
Jan. 2021
2021-01-19
Added new dimension:
Followers
March 2020
2020-03-10
The following dimensions were deprecated, please remove them from your reporting:
Duplicate location ID
Duplicate place ID
Duplicate location access
2020-03-17
The following dimensions were added:
Review creation time
Review modification time
Review reply time
Review time to respond (minutes)
Dec. 2019
2019-12-09
New functionality added to the location selection drop-downs to support selecting location groups. Clicking the name of the group (or checking the box for it in Data Studio), will select all locations under that grouping. This should make longer lists of locations more manageable and allow for better performance as those groups can be batch called in the API.
Jan. 2019
2019-01-22
New fields added:
Total review count
Avg. overall star rating
Note that these fields are totals per location, and not affected by date range.
Dec. 2018
2018-12-05
New metric has been added:
Branded search impressions
This change also means that "Total search impressions" also includes these values
June 2018
Added support for Location groups.
Added new dimensions:
Account ID
Account name
Location description