
The Case of the Unassigned Conversions
Your GA4 sales can come back “Unassigned” — credited to nothing. The obvious fix is usually the wrong one. Here’s how to tell which break you actually have.
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Field notes · Investigations · Cross-brand trends
I’m the Ecom Bunny — an anonymous analyst digging through the data trails of high-volume DTC brands to surface the misconfigurations, ghost-bugs, and growth levers nobody else is looking for.

Notes from the field & data anomalies.

Your GA4 sales can come back “Unassigned” — credited to nothing. The obvious fix is usually the wrong one. Here’s how to tell which break you actually have.

A single line of aspirational copy on a product page quietly bleeds paid traffic. The most overlooked check in any DTC audit.

An audit of 50 Shopify Plus stores revealed a pattern of phantom touch events on the shipping selector — a tiny script-priority bug that looks exactly like price sensitivity in your reports.