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Mar 26 โ€ข 5 tweets โ€ข 3 min read
Did you know that the default session time out in #GA4 is THIRTY MINUTES?! ๐Ÿ˜…

So, someone can be on your site for 29 minutes and 50 seconds and *totally* screw up your average engagement time...

It can be avoided though, here's how to change it ๐Ÿ‘‡

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In the primary navigation, click through to the admin module โš™๏ธ and go to your data streams.

You will need to make this change to each data stream ๐Ÿ™„, so just click on the first stream you see.

Clicking into the stream will take you to the "stream details" ๐Ÿ“‘

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When in the stream details, look for "additional settings" and "more tagging settings"

Once you click into more tagging settings, you'll see options to change all sorts of settings...

but for this specific change, you'll need to go to
๐Ÿ‘‰ "adjust session timeout"

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On this screen, you can adjust your sessions time from 30 minutes to however long you'd like.

โŒ I suggest no longer than 10 minutes. โŒ

You may be tempted to adjust timer for engaged sessions... BUT DON'T. I'll tell you why tomorrow ๐Ÿ˜

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If you want more tips like this, be sure to give me a follow ๐Ÿ‘‰ twitter.com/brie_e_anderson

If you are ready to take GA4 by the horns, enroll in my course ๐Ÿ‘‰ bit.ly/ga4-beast-courโ€ฆ
* enroll before 3/30 for 25% off!

Tune back in tomorrow for more #GoogleAnalytics4 fun facts!

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Mar 24
So, you don't know where anything is in GA4?

Well, guess what... You can rearrange all of your navigation in the secondary menu.

Wanna know how? Stick around ๐Ÿ‘‡

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In the secondary menu for reports, there is a button for "Library."

This is where all of the reports are stored and sorted - these are the reports that make up your navigation (see where we are going ๐Ÿ˜)

When you get into the Library, select "Create New Collection"

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A "Collection" is essentially a folder that holds your reports... Don't get lost, because we are going to talk about more folders in a second ๐Ÿ˜…

The next folder you will make is a "Topic" folder. You do this by creating a new topic.

TOPIC NAMES = Navigation button name

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