Navigate GA4 Homepage Like a Pro
30sBloggers forced to switch to GA4 will find this overview crucial for daily traffic checks.
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This video guides bloggers on navigating Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to find key reports, including the homepage overview, page views per page, and landing page data. It demonstrates how to access these reports and use them to evaluate website performance.
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Homepage Overview Report
Use the homepage report to view data for the last 30 days or a specific time frame like last 28 days. Look at events such as page views (now called 'views').
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Pages and Screens Report
Navigate to Reports > Engagement > Pages and Screens to see views, users, and other metrics per page. This helps identify best and worst performing pages.
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Landing Page Report
Click on Landing Page within the Pages and Screens report to see which pages users land on most often, indicating top search entry points.
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Recently Accessed Reports
On the homepage, scroll down to 'Recently accessed' to quickly revisit reports you've viewed.
Google Analytics 4 offers key reports like Pages and Screens and Landing Page analysis, essential for bloggers to optimize content and track performance efficiently.
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What is the event called for page views in Google Analytics 4?
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What is the event called for page views in Google Analytics 4?
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How do you access the report showing per-page performance in GA4?
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How do you access the report showing per-page performance in GA4?
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Go to Reports > Engagement > Pages and Screens.
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What report shows which pages users land on from search?
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What report shows which pages users land on from search?
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Landing page report (within Pages and Screens).
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How can you quickly reopen a previously viewed report in GA4?
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How can you quickly reopen a previously viewed report in GA4?
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Scroll down on the homepage to the 'Recently accessed' section.
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💡 Key Takeaways
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Homepage as Starting Point
Shows the default overview that bloggers can use to quickly check performance trends.
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Per-Page Performance Analysis
Essential for identifying which blog posts are performing well and which need improvement.
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Landing Page Insights
Reveals which pages are most effective at attracting search traffic, guiding content strategy.
00:30Full Transcript
with Google Now forcing Google analytics 4 on us it's time to learn how to navigate it and use it properly let me show you how to find some of my favorite reports for bloggers in Google analytics 4. for an overview I actually like this homepage report I can look at the last 30 days or I can look at a specific time frame last 28 works great for events I like to look at a specific one often
page views so that's just called views now but often it's a lot more valuable to look at the views that I'm getting on each page of the website individually we can find that report by going to reports engagement pages and screens here I can see the views the users and everything based on the page of the website and I can look at it for my entire website that's going to help me identify which pages on the
site are performing best and which ones are underperforming likewise I can click here on landing page and see a similar report that's showing me the page that people land on on the website most often these are the pages that are doing best in Search and now what's cool if I go back home and I just scroll down here to recently accessed these reports that I just looked at are just going to show up right here on
the home page
