The Landing Page report. Universal Analytics has it, GA4 does not.
But… you can make it! I’ll show you how to make your own landing page report in GA4 in a few easy steps,
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1/ Start from a similar template, in this case, the “Pages and Screens” report in GA4. Then click the “Customize Report” button in the upper right hand corner.
2/ Next, click in to edit the included dimensions, and click “Add dimension”. Scroll down the list until you find “Landing Page” and select it.
3/ Click the 3 dots on the right hand side of the “Landing Page” dimension name from the list of included dimensions and choose “Set as default”. Then hit apply in the bottom right corner.
4/ Landing page is now the default report dimension. Yay! While you’re here, you can also add or remove metrics and change/hide the chart types if you’d like. I’ve selected just a bar chart and removed the second chart by hitting the eye icon to hide it.
5/ Save as a NEW report. This is important - don’t save changes to the current report since we started off using the “Pages and Screens” report, otherwise you’ll no longer have the “Pages and Screens” report. Title is “Landing Page”
6/ Next you’ll need to add the report to a collection. Go to the library section - you’ll find this icon while in the “Reports” section of GA4 at the very bottom of the left hand nav.
7/ Choose which collection to add this new report to. It likely makes most sense to add it to the “Life cycle” collection, into the “Engagement” topic, right next to the “Pages and Screens” report. Click “Edit collection” for where you want to put it.
8/ Scroll to the bottom of the list of reports on the right to find your new Landing Page report, and then drag and drop it into the topic section you want on the left column.
9/ Click save on the bottom of the screen. This time, choose to “Save changes to current collection” choice so that the Landing Pages report is added into your nav collections that are already published/visible
10/ That’s it! Check out your shiny new Landing Page report in the left hand nav. Now that you know how to build a custom report, go wild! Add all those reports you’re yearning for that don’t yet exist in GA4 ;)
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GA4 is the new hot. Or the new not. Depends on who you ask 🤷♀️
Regardless of where you stand though, here are 10 reasons why you should implement GA4 today, 🧵
1/ Universal Analytics (current #googleanalytics) is being sunset (aka killed) starting July 1, 2023. That means you have a little over a year to make the switch to GA4. Sure, you could wait until June 30th, 2023 to pull that trigger… but I wouldn’t suggest it (read on for why)
2/ To get Year over Year (Y/Y) data in GA4 by the UA sunset date, you’ll need to set it up by June 30th, 2022. THAT’S LESS THAN 2 MONTHS FROM NOW. Don’t panic, here’s my ultimate guide to setting up GA4
1/ Universal Analytics will stop collecting new data on July 1, 2023. That means you have ~15 months to prepare.
That DOESN’T mean you can wait 15 months. In fact, that means you need to get started preparing TODAY.
2/ Google Analytics 4 is taking the place of Universal Analytics. If you need year/year historical data (most people do want/need this!), then you need to implement GA4 now. Here’s a great resource to get started >
A note about thread organization: the first 3 tips are focused on getting your GA4 property enabled and collecting data, and the following 7 focus on ensuring you have a well-organized and robust GA4 property set up.
Follow these tips for a best practice GA4 set up 🔥
1/ Create a Google Analytics 4 property
This first step is actually really easy. Go to GA, create a new property, and the default will be a new GA4 property. Go through the simple set up process detailed there, and now you’ve got a GA4 property. More >