Another key difference is that Waiting Room runs on requests made to the origin, while Google Analytics requires a user-agent to run JavaScript (via Google Tag). Waiting Room creates new sessions and tracks user metrics based on the HTTP request path, without requiring any additional JavaScript execution by a user-agent. In contrast, Google Analytics requires user-agents to execute JavaScript and make a secondary request to report details to Google Analytics. If a large portion of the traffic is automated, it may not be captured by Google Analytics. However, Waiting Room analytics will count such traffic as new users and consider them active for the configured session duration.
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