Step-3: Click on the ‘Model comparison’ link from the left-hand side navigation:
Step-4: Select the date range from the date picker drop-down menu:
The longer the date range you select, the more statistically significant the reported data would be.
Note: The Model Comparison report includes data from June 14, 2021, onwards.
Step-5: Click on the ‘conversion events’ drop-down menu:
Step-6: Select the conversion event(s) for which you want to see the data in your Model comparison report. Deselect all other conversion events and then click on the ‘Apply‘ button:
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You would now see the Model Comparison report only for the selected conversion event (in our case, the ‘purchase’ event):
Note: By default, the Model Comparison report gives an overview of all your conversion events.
You should now see an overlay on the right-hand side of your screen:
Step-8: Change the reporting time to ‘Interaction time’ (optional).
To do that, select the ‘Interaction time’ radio button:
Interaction time: Use this setting if you want the model comparison report to include all touchpoints that happened with the date range you selected.
Conversion time: Use this setting if you want the model comparison report to include only those touchpoints that lead to conversions and that happened with the date range you selected.
Note: By default, the model comparison report uses ‘conversion time’ as the reporting time.
Step-9: By default, the Model Comparison report shows data for all users. If you want to see data for only a segment of users, then click on the ‘Add filter’ button:
Note: The ‘Add filter’ feature works just like the GA4 Comparisons feature.
Step-10: Select the primary dimension you want to use for your analysis from the data table (optional):
Let’s select ‘Source/medium’ as the primary dimension:
Step-16: Click on the ‘<’ button to see the Model Comparison report in the full view mode:
Step-17: Look at the % change column of the report:
Following is the enlarged view of the data table:
From the screenshot above, we can conclude that the Conversions from the Google Organic search on desktop devices are overvalued by 40.01% under the time decay model.
Whereas the Revenue (i.e. sales) from the Google Organic search on desktop devices is overvalued by 30.36% under the time decay model.
That’s the kind of insight you can get from the model comparison report in GA4.
The Model Comparison report provides the following features for easy navigation:
#1 Search Box
Use the search box to filter out a specific set of data.
To use the search functionality, type your search term and then press the enter key.
#2 Rows per page
By default, the data table of the Model Comparison report shows only 10 rows per page of the report.
If you want to see more than 10 rows, then click on the ‘Rows per page’ drop-down menu and select the desired number of rows to be displayed:
You can display up to 250 rows per page of the Model comparison report in GA4:
#3 Go to
If you want to quickly navigate to a particular row of the data table of the Model comparison report, then type the row number in the text box next to ‘Go to’ (you don’t need to press the enter key):
#4 Pagination
The Model Comparison report has a pagination feature built-in through which you can navigate back and forth between various pages of the report:
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