Acquisition reports in Google Analytics 4 || Traffic reports in GA4

[@andysimpson6826]

Brilliant video Julius, kept it simple and to the point, keep up the great work!

[@gavinwiener]

2:35 was absolute money for me. Thanks for this!

[@kandaman304]

Great video. Well explained! Thanks, Julius.

[@motaha87]

at the second 1:33 >> the same also for conversions. if the user came from organic and made the first session and second session came from email marketing. the user made in the session of email marketing a conversion. It means that the conversion will be attributed to the organic ? thanks in advance

[@motaha87]

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[@Ewelinaapinska]

6:20 What will happen when user change its source / medium or campaign DURING active session? As we know, GA4 do not create new session within this condition, but how it will be visible in Traffic acquisition report? I see that sometimes I have more session from rows than aggregate (on top of the column) shows, sometimes summed up rows show less than aggregate. It never happens in GA3 reports, the aggregated values from the rows have always agreed with the aggregate at the top of the column.

[@fredfabrega1664]

Great Channel especially in the area of GA4

[@bsmart_web]

The quick explore is so great! Thank you for mention it.

[@dylanrodgers3150]

Thank you, Julius. Longtime fan, first-time commenter.

[@איתיזרם]

hey, amazing tutorial! just 1 question why when I'm pressing "Explore" after the Comparison on "Traffic acquisition" it's not copying the same repost as happening to you but making it different? 7:40

[@broker17-u9t]

Awesome Video Julius Thank you so much!!

[@noobviously]

5:18 you say first user came from google/organic and the LATER he came back from email/marketing. Why does GA still count his second come as first user? because his first come was from google/organic ? sorry im still confuse lol

[@jimsdigitalmarketing]

Amazing as always!

[@dunAazul]

love it! amazing content :) thanks!

[@Cragun.]

Great info, if you only have one page you want to track on.

[@ajwired]

Thanks for the video. Do you know how to view the traffic broken down by day of the week? Like how to see what days of the week are the best traffic vs worst?

[@zachmurri]

when you talk about 'sending purchase data' back to GA how is that done? Is there a way I could attribute purchases that happen on a third party site to these specific Traffic Sources?

[@JayeeeMaooo]

thanks for explanation on "first user", a lot of concepts are not clear in ga4....

[@BrandonLoures]

Do you have a video or can you show us how to view traffic by week or by month in the basic reports or do we have to build a custom report to see weekly and monthly traffic?

[@BlaQFireNation]

I’m wondering if they’re gonna add analytics from social media traffic . I thought this would’ve been a no brainer.

[@nghiaxe5841]

hello Julius, if we have 2 event in Event count column, event 1: page_view_home event 2 : add_to_cart, how we add more columm to see each event in other column

[@pokelover02]

Thank you, but how do you find this info for a specific subfolder, not the whole site?

[@SK-jl5jl]

That was great. Thank you.

[@westbym]

Any idea why we'd be seeing all revenue on the Traffic Acquisition report show as Unassigned while it appears to be working correctly on the User Acquisition report? On Traffic Acquisition all the other metrics for each channel grouping look fine until you get to conversions and revenue. It shows zero revenue for all channel groupings except Unassigned, which has very low sessions and users but all the revenue for the website being reported there.

[@raeen100]

GREAT VIDEO PLEASE MORE FOCUSE ON each sections one by one and explain it in less than 10 min video

[@imlakdawala]

great explained...I want to know how long Google track a one user's sessions or user stay in the session? Let's say one user come to my site via organic today and tomorrow that same user come from the email newsletter so here 1 user with 2 sessions counts? Where I will see the breakdown?

[@AnalyticsMania]

30 minutes. 1 user 2 sessions

[@sharmaritvik]

Hi Julius, I agree the individual lines graphs is annoying. How do you see 1 line for the total instead?

[@AnalyticsMania]

In GA4, you can't. If you could, I would have showed it

[@sharmaritvik]

@@AnalyticsMania would be interesting to do a poll of who likes GA3 vs GA4 on Twitter/ LinkedIn and tag Google.

[@IRDSB]

Great video, thanks. The tip about having to hide sidebars and zoom out is a good one but is indicative of the slapdash approach that Google have appeared to have taken with GA4 - it would seem obvious that users want to see all available metrics without having to scroll around...where was the UX team?!

[@AnalyticsMania]

Probably sleeping or working on another Google's product that is currently getting shut down.

[@IRDSB]

@@AnalyticsMania 😄

[@AnimeshRoyInc]

Very helpful

[@cornelnovotni]

Hey Julius, do you know why Paid Traffic won't show in GA4 reports? Many Thanks!

[@gelowzee9352]

How are the numbers in Direct and Organic calculated? I understand that for websites, it is when someone directly inputs the website into a URL. But for mobile apps, I can't seem to find an answer on how the numbers here are computed..

[@AnalyticsMania]

Direct means that GA4 does not know the traffic source. It's not necessarily "someone entered the address in the address bar".

[@jimbasara]

This video was very helpful. In GA4, how do I drill down to see what search terms brought organic search sessions to my website?

[@AnalyticsMania]

Connect google search console with GA4. And then check that data. You cannot see keywords in acquisition reports

[@gbarrow]

How do you graph a specific referral source? I can see all the sources but I'd like to see a traffic graph of just once site not all of them

[@danieleibatici1835]

am i able to see traffic acquisition trhough email ? and see demographic data about the email? thanks

[@georged7530]

Traffic and User Acquisition sections are missing in my report and there is nothing in the library that I can pick from and make them visible. Any advice? Thanks

[@AnalyticsMania]

Never heard of such a situation before

[@georged7530]

​ @AnalyticsMania I was able to find out what is the problem and fix it. And ofc. nobody explained such a case. I was looking and reading and searching for 2 days and I found nothing. Apparently, not all industry categories (when setting up the property) have those reports available in the dashboard as it was with the Universal analytics. I picked "Games" and those reports were missing. Change it to "Select one" and they appeared as normal... Imagine I didn't think of this, cause It wasn't like that before and nobody, even google blog, wrote about it...

[@tatyanafittipaldi]

What is "direct" in GA4? In UA my direct used to be a lower count than now. Direct in GA4 has a huge amount and "Organic" much less. Seems a bit off. So I am wondering if you know what's the difference between "directs" in UA versus GA4 since this traffic source shows different values in each.

[@AnalyticsMania]

Direct means the same thing in both versions - "traffic source is unknown". But GA4 attribution model is different, which causes more sessions to be attributed to direct.

[@DerekroseClothing]

​@@AnalyticsMania whats the difference in GA4 attribution to make it attribute more to Direct?

[@franciscojsanz]

Hi there! I see that I have a "Thresholding applied" warning... but I can't know where the issue is to fix it. Thanks for the video!

[@AnalyticsMania]

Switch to the device-only reporting identity

[@franciscojsanz]

@@AnalyticsMania thanks! :) what does this mean?

[@masyusuf]

Thank you sir. Can you explain about AMP tracking for GA4? Especially on the wordpress platform.

[@AnalyticsMania]

Looks like Google is putting less and less emphasis on AMP. I would not be surprised if it will be discontinued fairly soon.

[@sameerbehlim-co7kp]

my question is ( if first user come from organic search so it will be count in user acquistion report as a first user ) and ( later same user come from paid search so now it will be count in traffic acquisition report as a session default ) but my question is if the user come again so it will be not count in user acquistion report because its not a new user its a existing user

[@davidwang686]

Hi Julius - I'm not seeing Display as a channel on my acquisition report even though most of my traffic is coming from Google Display. Do you know why that is?

[@TimFuzail]

Probably new setup, wait few days.

[@alexkirsch6403]

When I customize reports does everyone see the changes with access go the GA account or just me?

[@AnalyticsMania]

Everyone

[@Kundankumarsinghh]

Waiting for a video on how to set up view item event or view cart event in GA4 using wordpress. Most skip the wordpress configuration and shows only GA or GTM set up.

[@AnalyticsMania]

No plans for that

[@jewelerlab5859]

How do I send the report automatically monthly on the first to clients

[@denissafronov924]

Thanks!

[@mrmilan6514]

You didn't show us how to export that customized report. Where to find it to export it?

[@AnalyticsMania]

Top right corner. If you can't see it, you don't have enough permissions in the property.

[@williewooh]

Thank you sir

[@shaimonshaid1710]

Thank you

[@SimoneGrimani]

Thanks

[@CarSteeringWholesale]

If USER ACQUISITION = FIRST CLICK ATTRIBUTION And TRAFFIC ACQUISITION = LAST CLICK ATTRIBUTION Then why do we choose ATTRIBUTION type in the ACCOUNT SETTINGS. EX: Our ATTRIBUTION TYPE is set to DATA DRIVEN. Does USER ACQUISTION and TRAFFIC ACQUISTION take this into account?

[@unibotssomo]

hi can anyone please tell what does unassigned traffic means?

[@AnalyticsMania]

It means you are probably using custom UTMs that GA did not assign to any channel grouping

[@selenefroehlich9138]

i have tried already two years to watch your videos, but you use the terms without explaining sometimes what it is, it is very difficult to understand your content sometimes. You speak waaay too technical. I wish you would simplify this more, because you are very knowledgeable

[@AnalyticsMania]

That's because you are watching videos in random order. My ga4 course contains the lessons in correct order, also a lot of lessons from that course are not available on my blog or youtube. That's how you would not have gaps in your knowledge and understanding lessons would be easier.

[@AnalyticsMania]

I share a lot of stuff for free. But if that is not enough, there are paid options. And there is a 30 day refund policy in case the paid course also does not fit your needs.

[@AnalyticsMania]

Last but not least, my courses include support. If something is unclear, you ask in the course and my team or I will answer/help

[@Bigmouthpr_ck]

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