If you run more than one website in 2026, you know the morning routine. Open GA4, click the property switcher, wait for the report, note the numbers, switch to the next property, repeat. If your sites live under different Google accounts, add logging out and back in. A traffic check that should take 30 seconds turns into 15 minutes of clicking.
It wasn't always like this. Universal Analytics went away in July 2023, and GA4 — its replacement — is better at collecting data than at showing it to you. Even plain visitors and page views take more taps to find than they used to. And your search clicks live in a completely separate tool, Search Console.
The one-page dashboard route
The simplest fix is a viewer that sits on top of the accounts you already have. GA Lite is a good example of the category: you sign in with Google, grant read-only access through OAuth, and it pulls every GA4 property you own onto a single page — visitors, page views, engagement, with your Search Console clicks and impressions right beside them. It supports multiple Google accounts, so sites scattered across different logins finally show up in one list. There's a real-time view too, which is handy right after you publish something and wonder if anyone's actually reading it.
Because the access is read-only, it can't change anything in your Analytics setup. It reads and displays, nothing else.
It's free to check out
The free plan has no time limit and doesn't ask for a credit card. Paid plans start at $8.25 a month for extras like a custom username, but the core all-sites dashboard is on the free tier. For a "check my traffic with coffee" habit, free covers it.
Where it falls short
A viewer is not a replacement. When you need funnels, audiences, or custom explorations, you're still opening GA4 proper. GA Lite handles the daily "how are my sites doing" glance — the exact thing GA4 is weirdly bad at — and stops there. If your job is deep analysis, treat it as a companion, not your main tool.
The DIY alternatives
Two, mainly. You can bookmark every property and cycle through tabs each morning — free, works, gets old by week two, and you'll never spot at a glance that one of your sites dropped 40% overnight. Or you can build your own multi-property report in Looker Studio, Google's free report builder. It's genuinely capable, but it's a project: you're constructing a dashboard, not checking one, and that setup evening has a way of never quite happening.
If tinkering with report builders sounds fun, do that. If you just want one page with all your numbers on it, that's a solved problem now — and it doesn't cost anything to solve.