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Free online courseReporting in Google Analytics 4

Duration of the online course: 1 hours and 8 minutes

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Turn GA4 data into decisions with this free course on reporting. Learn acquisition, engagement, monetization, and cleaner insights to improve marketing results.

In this free course, learn about

  • Navigate GA4 Reports and UI to answer common business questions using built-in report collections
  • Distinguish overview reports (summary) vs detail reports (drill-down with full table + dimensions/metrics)
  • Use Acquisition reports to identify where users/traffic come from (source/medium, channel, campaign)
  • Differentiate User acquisition (first user source) vs Traffic acquisition (session source) in GA4
  • Use Engagement reports to analyze user interactions, key events, conversions, and engagement time
  • Find most popular pages/screens using the Pages and screens report (views, users, avg engagement time)
  • Evaluate ecommerce performance with Monetization reports (revenue, purchases, ARPU, conversions)
  • Use the Ecommerce purchases/Items report to analyze item-level metrics (views, carts, purchases, revenue)
  • Validate data and interpret 'not set', '(other)', and unexpected trends in GA4 reporting
  • Understand '(other)' as aggregated low-volume values due to limits/thresholding in GA4 reporting
  • Use Plot Rows to compare selected table rows as separate lines in a detail report time series chart
  • Understand GA4 scopes (user, session, event, item) and how scope affects dimensions and metrics
  • Identify first-touch channels in the User acquisition report (user-scoped acquisition)

Course Description

Knowing what happened on your site is useful. Knowing why it happened, what to do next, and how to explain it to others is what makes reporting truly valuable. This free online course helps you feel confident inside Google Analytics 4 reporting so you can answer real business questions quickly, spot meaningful trends, and communicate performance without guesswork.

You will learn how to navigate the GA4 interface and use reports with purpose, choosing the right view depending on whether you need a fast summary or a deeper diagnosis. You will practice reading acquisition data to understand where users come from and how different perspectives on acquisition can change the story you tell about marketing performance. Instead of relying on assumptions, you will be able to connect channels and traffic sources to outcomes and user behavior.

The course also focuses on engagement reporting so you can see how people interact with your website or app, which pages or screens earn attention, and where interest drops off. For ecommerce and revenue-focused teams, you will interpret monetization reporting to evaluate performance and dig into item-level results, helping you identify what sells, what gets added to carts, and where revenue is coming from.

Good reporting depends on clean interpretation. That is why you will learn how to validate data, understand not set values, interpret the other row, and react to unexpected changes without panicking or drawing the wrong conclusion. You will also use features like plot rows to compare trends clearly and understand reporting scopes so you choose the correct metrics and dimensions for the question at hand. By the end, GA4 reports will feel less like dashboards to glance at and more like tools you can use to drive smarter decisions in digital marketing.

Course content

  • Video class: Reports and UI Tour in Google Analytics: How to use reports to answer common business questions 16m
  • Exercise: In Google Analytics 4 reporting, what is the key difference between an overview report and a detail report?
  • Video class: Find where users are coming from using Acquisition Reports in Google Analytics 12m
  • Exercise: What is the main difference between the User acquisition report and the Traffic acquisition report in GA4?
  • Video class: How do users interact with your website or app? Use Engagement reports in Google Analytics 09m
  • Exercise: In GA4 Reporting, which report helps you find the most popular pages on your website or app (including metrics like views and average engagement time)?
  • Video class: Learn how your ecommerce business is performing using monetization reports in Google Analytics 06m
  • Exercise: In GA4 Monetization reports, which report should you use to dig into details about the items you sell (e.g., item name/brand/ID) across metrics like views, add-to-carts, purchases, and revenue?
  • Video class: Data validation, not set and other rows, and unexpected trends in Google Analytics reports 09m
  • Exercise: In Google Analytics 4 reports, what does the “(other)” row typically mean?
  • Video class: Plot Rows in Google Analytics line charts 02m
  • Exercise: What does the GA4 feature Plot Rows allow you to do in detail reports?
  • Video class: Understanding scopes in Google Analytics 11m
  • Exercise: In GA4, which report shows the channels that first brought a user to your site (user-scoped acquisition)?

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