The experiences in Google Analytics 4 will be complicated. Take, for instance, acquisition experiences — the channels sending site visitors to your website — at Experiences > Acquisition. The part lists two forms of acquisition: consumer and site visitors.
I’ll tackle these experiences on this publish.
Site visitors Sources in GA4
“Person acquisition” vs. “Site visitors acquisition”
These two experiences within the Acquisition part disclose the place every customer got here from. Person acquisition represents the preliminary supply that introduced the particular person to your website. Site visitors acquisition is the latest.
Say a first-time customer got here to your website from clicking an natural search itemizing. GA4 will group that preliminary go to within the “Natural search” channel for each experiences. But when she leaves and returns just a few days later from a Fb advert, GA4 will listing the second go to within the “Paid social” channel within the “Site visitors acquisition” report and “Natural search” in “Person acquisition.”
In different phrases, the “Site visitors acquisition” report doesn’t differentiate between new and returning customers. It exhibits the full classes and the place every originated. The “Person acquisition” report exhibits the full customers and their preliminary (first-time) supply.
Channels
Each experiences present “default channel teams” — traffic-source classes — together with:
- “Direct.” Guests who typed your URL of their browser’s search bar.
- “Natural Search.” Guests who clicked an natural itemizing on Google, Bing. or one other search engine.
- “Natural Social.” Guests who clicked an natural publish on a social media website.
- “E-mail.”
- “Paid Search.”
- “Paid Social.”
- “Referral.” Guests who clicked non-ad hyperlinks on third-party websites.
- “Natural Video.” Guests who clicked non-ad hyperlinks on websites comparable to YouTube, TikTok, and Vimeo.
For particulars on every channel, click on the drop-down menus on every report. In “Person Acquisition,” click on the “First consumer default channel group” menu and choose “First consumer supply” for the listing of originating domains.
For detailed sources of customers, click on the “First consumer default channel group” menu and choose “First consumer supply.” Click on picture to enlarge.
Within the “Site visitors Acquisition” report, click on “Session default channel group” and choose “Session supply.”
For detailed sources of classes, click on the “Session default channel group” menu and choose “Session supply.” Click on picture to enlarge.
The numbers could also be totally different owing to new and returning visits.
You possibly can restrict each experiences to a single web page by way of the “Add filter” possibility on the high.
- Choose “Add filter.”
- Click on “Choose dimensions.”
- Choose “Hyperlink Click on URL”
- Choose “incorporates” beneath “Match kind.”
- Paste your web page’s URL within the “Enter dimension URL” field.
The site visitors and consumer acquisition experiences will now present information for that URL.
Restrict each experiences to a single web page by way of the “Add filter” possibility. Click on picture to enlarge.
In lots of circumstances, the consumer and site visitors acquisition experiences are interchangeable. The variations, once more, consequence from returning guests. Regardless, the experiences present the sources of site visitors — channels that introduce your model and drive return visits.