Step-By-Step Guide to Creating a GA4 Free-Form Exploration Report

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0:37 Step-By-Step Guide to Creating a GA4 Free-Form Exploration Report

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Transcript
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We are going to learn about the GA port free from exploration report.

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So actually in GA port you can get two types of report.

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One is normal report where you can get access to dependent mattresses, diamonds.

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If you want to do deeper and analysis, you need to create exploration report.

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So here you can get a normal report and exploration report.

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Hi guys.

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I'm smoothy from Solutions eight.

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and in this video we are going to learn about the GA port

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free from exploration report.

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Okay?

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So actually in GA port you can get two types of report.

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One is normal report where you can get access to predefined

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mattresses, diamonds, and et cetera.

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You can use that report to quick analysis to normal analysis, but.

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If you want to do deeper analysis, you need to create exploration report.

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Okay?

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So here you don't get a normal report and exploration report.

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Just click here.

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Then here analytics will provide.

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Several types of exploration report.

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One is free from exploration report, which we're going to discuss about today.

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Uh, Another is funnel exploration, path Exploration segment Overlap

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cohort exploration uh, user lifetime.

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these are the templates provided by g4.

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You can use these templates to analysis quickly, video, we are going

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to learn how we can create a free from exploration report from scratch,

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To create any type of exploration report, you need to click here.

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Then you'll get a task port.

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So first of all, get this huge panel where the data.

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This panel called tab.

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Okay.

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Inside a single exploration report, you can add multiple tabs.

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Choose your exploration report type, and you can create another tab.

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So this is one panel and another two panels are variables and tab settings.

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Okay?

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So in variables, you need to add segments, diamond dimensions, and metricses

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to use throughout the exploration report, but to use inside a single.

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, you need to add these things to the tabs settings.

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so let's add diamond dimensions and matrices, and we'll

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talk about segments later.

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Just click on the plus icon you'll get access to several types of dimensions.

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Just choose your dimensions from the dropdown like this.

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Yeah, you can use this search box to search your dimensions.

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I'm going to add country then.

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City, I'm going to add device.

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import.

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Then we need to add mattresses.

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This time going to source for session.

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another.

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Portrait, then import.

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so as I said, after adding the variables, you need to add these

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variables, diamonds, Andes, to the tab setting to use inside a single tab.

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so less art country.

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Diamond, you can add roads and columns.

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Okay?

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So if you drag and drop row and column area will highlight,

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so drag and drop inside row.

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And for a quick uh, huge quick navigation, you can double click.

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And matrices will go to . And here even you can use double click.

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so here you can see the data from United States, newer, you have this

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much obsession and s in this way you can use exploration report.

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The countries are repeating because inside one country there are multiple cities.

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Okay?

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So actually to analyze this, is getting messy, but we can make it

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visually clear by Eugene, this option, nested road, just enable it and.

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It'll make it clear.

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Okay?

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So it'll segment out properly inside United States, these are the countries and

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these are the citizens and s inside India.

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These are the cities and citizen and passages, and so, you can

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change the date range even.

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So here is the date range.

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You can select from this.

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Yeah.

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You cans select your custom data range from here and even you can use this

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compare feature to compare the data.

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And here another thing is a number of roads and starting roads.

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Okay.

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it'll also up to 10 row, you can see up to 10 row, But if you want to see

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more, you can increase it to 500.

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and start row is one from one row.

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It'll start, but if you want to start from 10th, it'll start from the 10th row.

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So you can use these settings too.

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as I said, dimensions, you can add in both.

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Roach and column,

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you can even analyze deeper by it out further.

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this is the country and city and device.

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This is not said right way.

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And this are the device and inside of each dive device, these are the

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session and s so you can check the data.

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bi segmented out device, country, city at a time.

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Then You can even use a filter option to filter diamonds, Andes.

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Let's suppose I want to see only United States data.

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You can click here and George Country.

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select that type contains, and I'm going to United States apply.

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So in this way you can see only United States.

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Then we'll talk about segments.

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You can clear segments and you can compare the segments.

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Segments means it's like a audience.

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You can create if I want to compare the traffic between.

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Organic and paid.

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I can create two segments for paid and organic and I can compare it.

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create a segment.

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here you can create a suggested segment.

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You can create from here, but we will create a custom segment.

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as we are uh, analyzing session.

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So we should uh, use session, submit.

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so from here you need to find out the traffic source.

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Okay?

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So from this time instance, you can directly choose here.

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you can use the search box.

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So I'm going to use medium, search for medium,

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I'm going to filter out CCPC.

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Okay.

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So CPC medium will show the P traffic.

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Just apply.

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And even if you can see the summary of the traffic, the

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session belongs to this segment.

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and just name it.

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Then click your save and apply.

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So here, pay traffic has been added and we need to create another segment to compare.

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I'm going to search for, again, session medium, and I'm going to filter organic.

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So here it's organic.

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Just apply and name it.

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Organic traffic and seven apply.

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so here is the segment.

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Organic, paid, and total.

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Okay, so.

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You can compare the total traffic versus organic traffic versus paid traffic.

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Okay?

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Inside of single segment, you can see session and purchase like column one.

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So in this way you can use the segment feature to even clear segment

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and compare the segment in Butin.

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So just create your exploration report and play with several types

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of segments diamond Dimens sense and mattresses, and huge dose, and see the

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data, how these things are working.

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We will launch better.

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Okay?

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So in this way, you can create free from Exploration report.

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