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Sessions

What are Sessions?

In web analytics, a session is a group of interactions one visitor has with a website within a given time, such as viewing pages, clicking and buying. It is one of the basic ways to count visits.

How Google Analytics 4 counts sessions

  • A session starts when a visitor opens a page or screen and no session is already active.
  • By default it ends after 30 minutes without activity. The timeout can be changed.
  • Unlike Universal Analytics, GA4 doesn’t start a new session at midnight or when the traffic source changes.

Sessions, users and page views

One user can have several sessions, and one session can include many page views. So a report may show 1,000 users, 1,400 sessions and 3,200 views for the same period.

Engaged sessions

GA4 also reports engaged sessions: sessions that lasted longer than 10 seconds, included a key event or had at least two page views. Engagement rate is engaged sessions divided by all sessions.

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