The screenshot below is showing pages reached via google/organic.
I'm confused by the highlighted row below. How can I have 2 users for this page with 0 sessions (and 0 everything else).
I'm assuming it's not a bot if the source/medium is googleorganic?
This is normal as the "sessions" metric is only incremented on the FIRST hit of the session. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2934985?hl=en
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I have a top profileid and a filtered profileid.
the filtered profileid uses a path starting with /xxx/yyy/
now in site I have 2 view pages -
1) top profile + my filter of /xxx/yyy/
2) sub profile
both pages show the same number and values for pages
but when I do a view of "ga:pageviews, ga:visitors, ga:visits"
I get different values only for visits (sometimes 0 on #1)
examples of output
1)
70 5 1
40 8 0 <--how can I get a zero?
2)
70 5 6
40 8 8
so hitting the top profile and adding my filter to the call gives me invalid visits.
using the same code for profile #2 I get correct numbers.
looking inside google admin, profile 2 only has the 1 filter and it matches the same as what I am doing in code. also the pages match up so this does not make sense to me.
how is it possible to get numbers but have no visits?
is there a way to get an individual listing of the data that it is using to output to my filtered request?
http://www.analyticsedge.com/2014/09/misunderstood-metrics-sessions-pages/
I think I figured this out. doing the filter inside google as a separate profile will retag the first page to a session count, whereas if I query the top profile and filter on my end I will get very low session starts because most people hit the home page or login page which counts as their session start.
it seems I cannot use the metric sessions or visits along with my filtering to a sub section.
I created an advanced segment with condition Page depth = 0 and then I found a report under Audience Overview that Page view is 0 for a huge number of session and Users. How is that possible?
Users may have zero pageviews when the pageview call failed (or pageview tracking wasn't called in the first place) but other interaction tracking like events (with the non-interaction flag set to a value other than true), user timings, transactions etc. still were fired.
Am I correct in assuming that Visits metric only counts how many times a user started session on the given page, and Unique Pageview is the number of users whom viewed the given page?
Given the following scenario, I have two pages on my site: Page A and Page B. Page A contains a link to get to Page B.
If a user starts browsing my website at Page A, Google Analytics will increment Visits and Unique Pageviews on A by 1.
Now if the user were to click on the link to B, will Google Analytics increment both Visits and Unique Pageviews or just Unique Pageviews on B?
Am I correct in assuming that ‘Visits’ metric only counts how many times a user started session on the given page, and ‘Unique Pageview’ is the number of users whom viewed the given page?
No, pageview is every time tracking code is executed (or _trackPageview() is called) and unique pageviews is the aggregate pageviews that are generated by the same user during the same session.
The difference between AdWords Clicks, and Sessions, Users, Entrances, Pageviews, and Unique Pageviews in Analytics
How a session is defined in Analytics
Question: Now if the user were to click on the link to B, will Google Analytics increment both Visits and Unique Pageviews or just Unique Pageviews on B?
Answer: Visit (not increase) / Unique pageviews on Page B (+1)
Basically, visits is the first hit of session, it may differ to entrances (the first pageview hit of a session). Please see the below link.
link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2934985?hl=en-GB&ref_topic=2524483
It's the example by Google
Visit 1:
Visitor enters to Page A
Visitor navigates to Page B
Visitor navigates back to Page A
End of session
Visit 2:
Visitor enters to Page C
Visitor navigates to Page B
End of session
Summary
Page A: 2 Page views, 1 Visit, 1 Unique Page view, 1 Unique Visitor, 1 Entrance
Page B: 2 Page views, 0 Visits, 2 Unique Page views, 2 Unique Visitors, 0 Entrances
Page C: 1 Page view, 1 Visit, 1 Unique Page view, 1 Unique Visitor, 1 Entrance
Totals: 5 Page views, 2 Visits, 4 Unique Page views, 2 Unique Visitors, 2 Entrances
I would like to show different block every second pageview in the sidebar. Unfortunately, the WordPress by default does not utilize sessions. Is there any other way to track the same user's hits without utilizing sessions? It would be enough to know, if it is first, second, n-th users pageview this visit.
Thanks!
Jonas
There's a way to do it without sessions but it's pretty lame (using IP and DB).
You'll need some PHP code & database.
+Table: visits
id
ip
visit_time
is_second_pageview
1.Someone visits a page on your site , the script will insert to the table the next values:
The visitors IP (you can get it with php $_SERVER variable)
current time (you can use time() function)
1
2.The script will check if the visitor's IP already exists in the DB and will also check the value of the matched field "is_second_pageview" , if this value is 1 then it's the seconds pageview , otherwise it's the 3rd , 5th , ... pageview.
The script then will update the value of that field to 0 and show an ad to your request.
3.Use cron job to delete old rows (according to the visit_time field), otherwise this table will be over-populated.
What do people use to dig in to Google Analytics data?
For example, I have a web page that tracks a custom event on it. I'd like to track a couple metrics:
1) What percent of users on that page successfully call the event at least once?
2) How do I see a bucket of the number of times a user called the event while they're on the page (or in a session, whatever), such as:
0 times -> 800 visitors
1 times -> 200 visitors
2 times -> 150 visitors
etc
Ideally I'd get this data emailed to me on a regular basis, maybe with a chart for the second part. Suggestions?
Let's say that the event is a Video Play.
You must keep track of how many videos the user played. For that create a session cookie with that number, and increment it at each video play.
Then you can fire a CustomVariable (Page Scoped) to send the number of events the user performed at that page.
Something like this:
window.onunload = function(){_gaq.push(['_setCustomVar', 1, 'Video Plays', cookie_value, 3]);}
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApiBasicConfiguration.html#_gat.GA_Tracker_._setCustomVar
That should get you a nice report