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Click

📚Basics

A click is a user interaction with an ad — clicking the headline, image, sitelink, or call extension — that triggers a billable action.

Aliases: Klik

What it is

A click is a billable user interaction with an ad - on the headline, image, sitelink, or call button - that Google Ads records as a cost. Google filters out 'invalid clicks' (bot traffic, duplicates, accidental clicks) and doesn't charge for them.

My take

I never compare Google Ads click counts directly against GA4 sessions - they're two different measurements (a click versus GA4's 'session start'), so a gap of ten-odd percent doesn't mean tracking is broken.

Example

A campaign gets 800 clicks in Google Ads in a single day, while GA4 shows 690 sessions for the same period - a 14% gap that's within the normal range and doesn't mean the measurement is broken.

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