This guide covers the pages and downloads section of the GA4 dashboard. The section includes top pages, error pages and downloads.
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Top pages
This table shows the performance of top pages for the whole of the vic.gov.au website, or for any filtered options selected, such as site section(s).
Page title: add the title of your page into the Page title field and select ONLY to find data for a specific page. This is the title of the page s it shows in Google search results. Most of the time this includes the meta title tag “| Victorian Government”, but not always. For example, this is what the page title of the 2022 Victorian flood recovery page looks like on Google:
Page path: URL of a page. You can also filter to the page using this field.
Engagement read count: number of words ready be a user on average.
% Δ (next to the Engagement read count): shows either an increase or decrease in the average time on the page. An increase will have a green arrow, and a decrease will have a red arrow and be a negative number.
Views: generated by the same visitor during the same session (a session lasts until there is 30 minutes of inactivity. Reloading in the same session will not be counted as a unique pageview).
% Δ (next to the unique pageviews): shows either an increase or decrease in the unique pageviews.
Avg Read Count / Views: shows the read count or views as a percentage of unique pageviews of a page (the ratio is expressed as a fraction of all pages on vic.gov.au).
% Δ (next to the Read Count / Views): shows either an increase or decrease in the percentage of unique pageviews.
Downloads
Pages with downloads
Page path: URL of the page where a download has occurred.
Event count: number of times a unique visitor within a session has downloaded something on the page.
% Δ: shows an increase or decrease of users downloading something on the page.
File name: URL of the document that’s been downloaded.
Event count: number of times the document has been downloaded.
% Δ: shows an increase or decrease of downloads for a specific file.
Page interactions
This table tells the journey visitors take when viewing a page. You can use the filter options to choose a single specific page or multiple pages to analyse.
Page path: page that was visited first, before going to the page listed in the Page column.
Views: views of the page, regardless of whether the views are done in the same session, by the same visitor, or with reloading the page.
Link clicks: number of clicks on the page.
Social share: number of times the page has been shared on social media.
Email clicks: number of times users clicked on an email link.
File downloads: number of times users clicked on a download.
Form submits: number of times users submitted a form.
Video plays: number of times users played a video.
