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title: "What is Entrances in GA4? | Kodalogic"
description: "Entrances are the number of times a page was the first page viewed in a session, as counted by Google Analytics 4."
url: https://kodalogic.com/glossary/entrances
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[Glossary](/glossary)/Entrances

Google Analytics 4 · Metric

# What is Entrances?

Entrances are the number of times a page was the first page viewed in a session, as counted by [Google Analytics 4](/glossary/ga4). A page with 500 entrances started 500 visits; its exits, the mirror metric, are the times it was the last page viewed.

| Landing page     | Entrances | Sessions | Engagement |
| ---------------- | --------- | -------- | ---------- |
| /                | 4,120     | 5,010    | 71%        |
| /templates       | 2,380     | 2,900    | 68%        |
| /blog/seo-report | 1,940     | 2,110    | 59%        |
| /pricing         | 860       | 1,240    | 74%        |

An entrance is counted on the page a session starts on.

Data source

Google Analytics 4

Type

Metric

## Why it matters

Entrances say which pages do the work of bringing people in, independently of how many views they collect later in the visit. A page can have few views and many entrances, which makes it a doorway, or many views and few entrances, which makes it a destination.

## How to read it

Entrances per page and [sessions](/glossary/sessions) per [landing page](/glossary/landing-page) describe the same thing from two reports and should match closely; a gap means sessions started without a page\_view, usually from an app screen or a measurement gap. Read entrances beside [engagement rate](/glossary/engagement-rate): a doorway that people leave in ten seconds is a doorway to fix.

## In a Data Studio report

In a Data Studio (formerly [Looker Studio](/glossary/looker-studio)) report entrances appear in the landing page tables next to sessions and [bounce rate](/glossary/bounce-rate), and the top entrances chart shows which pages start the most visits over time, which is the list SEO work moves first.

## Where to find it in Google Analytics 4

Google Analytics 4: Reports, then Engagement, then Landing page (sessions by landing page); Entrances as a metric in Explorations and in the Pages and screens report by adding the column.

Shown in these dashboards

* [![Google Analytics 4 Dashboard for Data Studio dashboard](https://kodalogic.com/cdn/templates_images/0222_0WG5IECFKCHKAUTGY4O1AIO8L0YIM9D5_0000.webp)](/template/google-analytics-4-template-for-looker-studio)  
[Google Analytics 4 Dashboard for Data Studio](/template/google-analytics-4-template-for-looker-studio)$129
[See the dashboard](/template/google-analytics-4-template-for-looker-studio)

![Entrances on the Landing page page of the Google Analytics 4 Dashboard for Data Studio](/informes/2026-09-02/google-analytics-4-template-for-looker-studio/03.webp)

Sessions by landing page over time, which is entrances by another name.Page 3, Landing page, of the [Google Analytics 4 Dashboard for Data Studio](/template/google-analytics-4-template-for-looker-studio).[Open the live demo](https://lookerstudio.google.com/embed/reporting/fb97e8f9-0817-4b2b-9b0d-16cb50407e13/page/p%5Ffo1dxij6ld) to see it with real data.

## See it in a report

[Google Analytics 4 dashboard](/template/google-analytics-4-template-for-looker-studio)[Web analytics report template](/report-templates/web-analytics-report)

## Related terms

* [Looker Studio](/glossary/looker-studio)
* [GA4](/glossary/ga4)
* [Engagement rate](/glossary/engagement-rate)
* [Sessions](/glossary/sessions)
* [Bounce rate](/glossary/bounce-rate)
* [Landing page](/glossary/landing-page)

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