How to show a cumulative chart of page views in GA4?

Question

How to show a single page view cumulative chart in GA4, as it was shown per default in GA Universal?

• Up chart: GA4 > Engagement > Pages and Screens: Multiple charts looks messy and doesn't show the overall trend
• Down chart: GA Universal > Behavior > All pages: the single cumulative chart shows me the overall trend

Answer 1

I discovered one more way to see cumulative chart in the reports. Next to your Dimentions' dropdown menu click on the big blue plus sign and add "Landing Page + Quary String". That will convert your graph into cumulative. I tested with couple other but it worked only with Landing Page (later I will test them all).

Have a nice one

Answer 2

Ok here is a simpler way (than two other answers) I found randomly:

Reports:

Engagement > Events > click page_view:

et voilà

However now I miss the beloved table/list of pages I had in GAUniversal > Behavior > All Pages, the info is now split in 2 screens. (GA4 UI is a total waste IMHO).

Answer 3

The procedures below may be used to get a chart of all page visits in GA4 that is summed with a sortable table of each page view below:

1. Select Engagement > Pages and Screens under GA4.

2. Select "Pageviews" under "Add metric" from the drop-down menu.

3. Select "Page path" under "Add dimension" from the drop-down menu.

4. Select "Page title" when you click the "Add dimension" button once more.

5. Select "Page URL" when you click "Add dimension" once more.

6. Select "Page referrer" by clicking "Add dimension" once again.

7. Select "User type" after clicking the "Add dimension" button once again.

8. Select "User country" by clicking "Add dimension" once more.

9. Select "Apply" from the menu.

This will demonstrate.

This will provide a chart with the total number of page views together with a sortable table of each page view in Google Analytics 4.

I hope this is useful.

Source:

[GA4] Analytics dimensions and metrics - Analytics Help - Google Help.

[UA→GA4] Comparing metrics: Google Analytics 4 vs. Universal Analytics.

[GA4] Pages and screens report - Computer - Analytics Help.

Answer 4

The answer is simple: don't use Reports. There's no report that you couldn't rebuild in Explorer. Plus, the data presented in reports is extremely sampled and imprecise. The biggest issue in Reports is that you can't drill in them. It's far from how it was in UA where you could apply complex filters and drop secondary dimensions. That's no longer possible because Reports in GA4 aren't based on the raw data. They're just screenshots, basically.

The only drawback of the Explore view is that it's a subject to the data retention setting (exactly because it's based on real data), so you may want to change it from the default 2 months to 14 months.

In the explorer, you only need pageviews metric. Don't add dimensions at all. Here's how it looks for a property that I switched from UA a few days ago:

Once I add a page dimension, it starts breaking the graph by pages, which is what one would expect. Otherwise, it's a sum. You still have filters there which don't require you to add dimensions to the graph even if you want to filter by them.

Step by step guide:

1. Go to Explore option here:

2. Click the new exploration option.
3. Click add metric:

4. Go to the Page section in Metrics and import Views.
5. Now change your data visualisation to a line graph:

6. Finally drag and drop your views metric to the Rows section.

They attempted to copy Adobe Analytics, but didn't really have even a tenth of capacity to do that, so that's what we got.