Free form exploration in Google Analytics 4

Learn how to use free form reports in Google Analytics 4. This video includes examples like landing page report and site search report.
Explorations in Google Analytics 4 contain some pretty powerful reporting capabilities, and one of the analysis techniques is the exploration reports. In this video, you will get familiar with the functionality of exploration reports and how to start doing your own analysis.
The best way to learn is by showing real-life examples and in this video, I will show you how to prepare the following reports:
* Landing page report in GA4
* Site search report
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[@coralinebu]

absolutely the best video series regarding analytics so far! thanks for sharing!

[@mattcrystal6905]

Thank you Julius! You’re a great teacher :)

[@savo4ek228]

Great video, Julius! Helped me clear a few thing regarding excessive event counts and naming, thanks.

[@WolfieBoostin20lbs]

Hey Julius, love your channel. Thanks for all that you do.

[@elizabethroy2944]

Thank you so much for a start. Much appreciate

[@faisalmmian]

Excellent Content. Thank you for sharing. Love your videos.

[@RivalD666]

This was very helpful, thank you!

[@505dema]

Hi there Julius! I just want to say: this tutorials are life saving! thanks a lot for this supreme information! Regards from Nicaragua!

[@mahmoudmustafa579]

Thanks a million!!

[@AlestairSimon]

Thank you! =)

[@oslo456]

Thank you for all the helpful videos. I haven't seen this covered, but in Exploration, can I make one report with multiple (different) paths? In UA, it's easy using RegEx. Can't repeat that process in GA4.

[@inspecialhome]

Hi Julius, is there a way to use different metrics to measure different dimension under the same form? Say for an example, for the Event dimension, I would like to use sessions and engaged sessions to understand the quantity & quality of each session of 'session_start', while for the scroll, I just want to know how many sessions ( excluded the engaged session metrics)

[@Jonas-qd5vg]

Hi Julius,
thanks for the great video!
I have one question regarding data discrepancies in Google Analytics for our App. When I look at the "app-open" event in the reports section I have a different values compared to the explore section. In the explore section I used the "app-open" as segment and in the summary it shows the same value. But when I add a metric ("total users") the value showing up is different than in the report section.
Do you have any idea what the reason for this could be?
Thanks in advance!

[@user-ip4kr5dq6f]

Thank you for the share ~ I was wondering if it's possible to add a Discover's widget into a report to create a customized dashboard, like tableau or other BI tools did.

[@formationgoogleads]

First Comment ! Thank you 😄

[@sharmaritvik]

Hi Julius, the need to filter by specific event name seems counter intuitive and perhaps even a step back from GA3 as it used to not show empty / not set rows unnecessarily. Such exploration method would slow down the analysis process.

[@savo4ek228]

Could not agree more! I was recently creating a report to filter out order IDs (some orders were missing in GA4, compared to GA3) and imagine my frustration, when I saw 60k orders with IDs "not set" with no clue on what's happening. This seems so odd, as many dimensions have implicit events they apply to - like you wouldn't apply order ID to "pageviews".
But I guess that's the price to pay for having everything as events and basically close to 0 standard reports, where dimension-value pairs would be predefined.

[@nidhipathak6460]

Sir i have a problem....i have created i form submission trigger in GTM as you explained and i have submitted it but when i am check on GA4 its just showing the send button click not showing it the form has submitted or not what do i do please help

[@minjusong3445]

This is very helpful!! Is there any way I can purchase your GA4 masterclass course only for exploration video?

[@AnalyticsMania]

Hi, no

[@mohamedguenidi3779]

Hi Julius
The image of this video have a name
Funnel Exploration
Although the video about Free Form
Thank you for your videos

[@AnalyticsMania]

Thanks, my bad. Will fix it soon

[@RudolfAlmighty]

Is it possible that the outbound link click count on site A (which leads to site B) does not match the site B traffic accusation source medium (site A) event count?

[@user-wb3vi4sz6w]

Hi! I have a question. In the demo for the search term, both the first row and the fifth one have 'backpack' as the query. However, one starts with a capital letter. Is there any way you can combine them?

[@AnalyticsMania]

Only if you use GTM and implement a custom solution that sets all values to lowercase

[@user-wi9pi7ik7s]

I want to know:How can i see the difference of the new user in every step in funnel exploration?Can you hep me?

[@odds87]

when filtering for a specific event name, how do you filter just the event count column, without filtering the others? e.g. to see event count and users by source for a specific event name, but without filtering users? a guide would be appreciated!

[@AnalyticsMania]

You can't

[@11barvas]

What if mine are all grey? They are not compatible for some reason? Thanks

[@AnalyticsMania]

Some dimension/metric combinations are not compatible

[@user-bl5xb4fs8p]

Like for tNice tutorials helpful tutorial

[@33bigmoney]

ga4 sucks!!