Google Analytics shows a huge variation between Users and New Users. To the point that the number of Users appears totally wrong.
The image below shows users for the period Feb 11, 2012 to Mar 10, 2022. In the Users column there are only 10, and they are all in Australia. However, in New Users there are 5,161 and from 64 different countries (not all countries shown in the image).
So what is happening?
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When I check the website's Users since a certain date it returns a super low value.
The example:
If I want to see the data from 01/01/2016 until 13/06/2021 I get 6 Users, 32.323 New Users, 37.611 Sessions, etc.
The Users number don't make any sense.
However, if I do 01/09/2016 until 13/06/2021 I get 16.849 Users, 16.973 New Users and 22.142 Sessions.
These numbers do make more sense.
So basically, if I consider ANY START DATE before the 01/09/2016 I will always get a super reduced value in the Users part, however, if I consider any start date after, and including, 01/09/2016 I will get reasoable values.
Has anyone ever had this issue?
From 1 September 2016 Google Analytics has brought a new feature, the ability to set the Users metric as the main metric, instead of Sessions. This event has taken the name of Users Everywhere and involves some relationships including Audience Reports and Acquisition Reports.
If the date range includes a period of time, even one day only, prior to 1 September 2016 or around that date, the result is like this:
This is valid, however, if the option to enable the Users metric in the reports , present at the Property level, is active:
Note: Google Analytics Standard properties have aggregated user metrics data since September 1, 2016 while Google Analytics 360 properties started aggregating data from May 1, 2016).
Source: https://www.analyticstraps.com/zero-utenti-con-sessioni/
Under Realtime reporting > Content, Google Analytics displays the number of Active Users and Pageviews in the last 30 minutes. Unfortunately, the table for each only lists up to 20 rows. Ergo, I can only see up to 20 Active Pages under Active Users, even if the total metric shows 50, for example.
How can I expand the number of rows? Is pagination available? I've been poking around Admin settings and couldn't find anything.
You can see the entire data that the report does not show you, programmatically by querying the View via the Real Time API.
I followed these instructions https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1012243?hl=en to show full URL in Google Analytics, because we have multiple third party sites included in our purchase flow...But a big issue I'm noticing now is that pageview data displays separately now.
Eg same month, Year-over-year view:
www.domainname.com/subpage
Aug 1-31 2017 Sessions - 5,000
Aug 1-31 2016 Sessions - 0
/subpage
Aug 1-31 2017 Sessions - 0
Aug 1-31 2016 Sessions 4,000
Is there some way to combine all this pageview data so that the subpages without the domains in front are combined with the full URL?
It's causing any data analysis to be very difficult.
I tried segments, but segments work by "sessions" and pull in other URL's that are part of the session but not specifically the URL I want to examine.
You can use the second Dimension "Hostname". Combined with the Path you will see the same as with your changes (www.domainname.com + /subpage). If you export the Data you can concat it again and analyze it.
In GA you have no possibility to merge the historical data of this two dimensions.
I have an API importer that runs through each day for four different accounts (same user login). It uses the same set of dimensions and metrics for each account.
On random days, for just one account, the AdSense revenue will be 0, but pageviews will appear. When I replicate in the API explorer, I see that AdSense revenue will appear when I have only one dimension.
Two strange things:
Revenue is greater than 0 on certain days. If we hit the API at random times, it will provide the AdSense revenue with all dimensions. Other times it won't.
Adsense revenue returning with one dimension in the API explorer.
It's not the issue if the API breaking with AdSesne, because it does appear from time to time. We know it's getting revenue, just missing from the API.
Anyone seen this before? It's quite frustrating.
Thanks!
We've recently installed Google Analytics on our intranet site which - obviously - is only available to internal staff. There are around 4000 members of staff in our place of work and so we can have an idea of the upper ranges of our "unique visitor" count.
For the period Mar 15, 2011 - Apr 14, 2011, there have been "10,307 Absolute Unique Visitors", averaging out at around 2000 - 2500 Absolute Unique Visitors hitting the site each day.
Is this metric telling me what I think it is? That is, in the period stated, 10,307 different people visited our intranet site. If so, how can this be, when we only have around 4000 staff?
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks
Unique visitors are tracked using cookies.
If each member of your staff uses two or three browsers (eg, Firefox and IE, or laptops, desktops, and smartphones), you'll get 10K unique visitors.
It could be that your organisation infrastructure forces cookies to be cleared after every session, or when users log out of their machines.
When cookies are cleared, a subsequent visit will be considered by a new visitor.
I would suggest taking a look at a user's repeat visits and ensure that the _utmz cookies does indeed persist.