Where to See Sessions in GA4
In Universal Analytics, Sessions were the main way to see how many visitors you had to your site.
Let’s see where to find that info in GA4.
Access Traffic Acquisition Report
Log into your GA4 Property.
In the left sidebar, click Reports.
Then Acquisition, then Traffic acquisition.
Here you can see Users by Session.
Session Default Channel Group
And the default is Session default channel group.
That will tell you the broad dimension of where your traffic originated, like
Organic Search
Direct
Organic Social
Organic Video
And Referral
Change to Session Source
Scroll down to see the table that has more metrics.
And here’s a special trick.
Click on the Session default channel group.
From the drop down, click Session source.
Now you can see the individual traffic sources.
However, these are not totals from each, like they were in Universal Analytics.
For example, pinterest.com is only one of about 15 Pinterest sources. Here you can see there were 136 users.
And down below is another for pinterest.ca and it has 4 users.
And that’s still not all of them.
See Full Totals From Each Platform
To see all sources from a single platform, you’ll need to create a custom Explorer report with a filter to show only that platform.
Here you can see all of the platform’s different sources.
And you can see the count is 153 Users, which is higher than the other two combined that we saw previously.
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