Successfully create a landing page report in Google Analytics 4
Ideal outcome
To be able to view landing page session data and segment these users based on traffic sources
Why it matters
The landing page report tells us a lot about how visitors arrive on our websites. You can further segment this data to identify the attributes of these visitors and how they behave following the first interaction
Before you start
You need to have an existing Google Analytics 4 account
Key steps
11 steps
What is inside
13 headings
1Create a landing page data report in Google Analytics 47
Login to your Google Analytics 4 account.
Make sure you’ve selected the right property (the website that you’ve implemented the Google Analytics 4 tracking code).
Select “Reports”.
Then head to Engagement Page and Screens
By default, the page traffic is sorted by page title, click on the “Page title and screen class” and select “Page path + query string and screen class”.
You will then see the updated report sorted by URL, this is similar to the Behavior Site Content All Pages report in Universal Analytics.
At this point, the report is showing the session data for all pages. In order to view the landing page data, change the Event count from “All Events” to “session_start”. This will filter the pages when the users first started the session (the landing page).
2Segment landing page data based on traffic sources4
Following the steps in “Create a landing page data report in Google Analytics 4 ”. You have now created the landing page report. Let’s segment this data by traffic sources (Example: organic, referral, paid, etc) by clicking “Add filter”.
A side bar will pop up on the right that allows you to further segment your landing data by various metrics: User location, device, medium/source, browser, and more. Click "Create new".
In this example, we’ll filter the landing page session via organic search. To do this, set the following:
To create a landing page report for different traffic sources, replace “organic” in Dimension values with the following:
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