I've created goal funnels with a required first step, /cancel. When I look at my pageviews reports, the unique pageviews for the /cancel page differ from the value reported in the funnel visualization for the required step 1. Why?
In the funnel report the number is sessions and not pageviews.
Here are the definitions:
Sessions: total number of Sessions within the date range. A session is the period time a user is actively engaged with your website, app, etc. All usage data (Screen Views, Events, Ecommerce, etc.) is associated with a session.
Pageviews: is the total number of pages viewed. Repeated views of a single page are counted.
Unique Pageviews: is the number of sessions during which the specified page was viewed at least once. A unique pageview is counted for each page URL + page Title combination.
It is important to know that the unique page metric does not closely match the deduplication of the number of times a page has been viewed in a session, as a unique pageview in Analytics is counted for each page URL + page Title combination.
So you can't consider page views because goals talk about sessions and you can't compare these metrics because they are different information with different scope.
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I have a number of different product pages and i'm interested in seeing how many users view each product more than 5 times. I understand I can do this for one of them with a segment and sequence, but I have too many pages that i'm interested in tracking. Could I do this with a custom metric? Maybe a calculated metric in analytics or data studio?
there's no reasonable way to do that because Google Analytics metrics are reported in an aggregated way and there's no way to introduce some custom conditions like 'if metric X is greater than N for specific user' other than segments.
the only way is to implement custom tracking that would watch for the number of page views for a particular page/product and then send data to analytics when a specific number of page views is reached.
Property hits volume = pageview?
I checked my Google Analytics and yearsterday I got 200 users but when i go to Administrator->Property->Property Configurations->Property hits volume, I saw that i got 10,000 Property hits volume yearsterday.
Where is this traffic coming from?!
I want to know the meaning of "Property hits volume".
Here's the definition from Google:
Hit
An interaction that results in data being sent to Analytics. Common hit types include page tracking hits, event tracking hits, and ecommerce hits.
Each time the tracking code is triggered by a user’s behavior (for example, user loads a page on a website or a screen in a mobile app), Analytics records that activity. Each interaction is packaged into a hit and sent to Google’s servers. Examples of hit types include:
page tracking hits
event tracking hits
ecommerce tracking hits
social interaction hits
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6086082?hl=en
Essentially combine your total number of non-unique pageviews and total number of non-unique event counts over the last 30 days, it should match closely (unless you have ecommerce and social as well)
I am trying to get a Custom Conversion Funnel in Omniture that records Unique Visitors instead of Visits or Revenue per event.
So if instances, carts, checkout and purchase events are configured to fire on a particular URL each, what variable should I check to ensure that the visitor is visiting this page for the first time?
Assuming I need to go to Components -> Calculated Metrics. If I check for New Visitor in c12, that would be checking if that visitor was new or not to the whole site and not for that URL isn't it?
Appreciate your help.
I was trying to figure out how many page views each of my Ad Words campaigns are generating to my website via Analytic s.
I followed this path: Traffic Sources > Sources > Campaigns. But there I can only see how many visits, pages/visit, avg. time on site, % New visits and Bounce rate.
To find the number of page views I have to multiply the number of visits by the number of pages/visits, right? But I want to know if it's possible to get this number straight away.
In report All Traffic,If i choose primary dimension as "Landing Page" i see some (not set) entries.
Why it may happen?
Also it entries have page/visits=0, % new visits < 2% and bounce rate = 0%.
Are you filtering out pageviews, but events or social interactions are still going through the filters and hitting GA, spawning new visits that don't have pageviews? Then (not set) might mean that the dimensions you're combining don't have a real relationship. Another reason might be data that GA couldn't lookup for that dimension and there are some different reasons that might happen.
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009/08/back-to-basics-not-set-entries.html
http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2820717