What does 'admin.shopify.com' referral in GA4 mean?

Shopify Apps
1

Hi,

I’ve started seeing a lot of traffic and installs for our app from a new source called “admin.shopify.com” and it is tagged in GA4 as a referral.

Has anyone else experienced the same and perhaps knows what it means? Did Shopify change anything on their end in how they send the data to GA?

Thanks!

2

Hi there, admin.shopify is probably you when logging in the account. You need to add it as an exception for tracking in GA4 and Shopify.

3

Hi,

I am not sure that is the case since we have sign ups and upgrades coming from there and the volume of visits is too high for it to be employee logins.