I am fetching bounce rate month wise and saving in my DB
But for eg. my data is for JAN - 50% , FEB = 60 % . Which I cross check with GA it is also same ..
But when I find Bounce rate YTD in GA (JAN to FEB) It wont give 50+60 / 2 = 55%
Which mismatch my data ..
ga:bounceRate
UI Name: Bounce Rate
The percentage of single-page session (i.e., session in which the person left the property from the first page).
Calculation:
ga:bounces / ga:sessions
Trying to get any of the calculated fields to work out with our data is never easy.
Bounce rate is the percent of sessions that leave the site without any interaction. As DalmTo mentioned, a bounced session will always be a user that left on the first page but not every session that leaves the site on the first page will be considered a bounce. If any event fires on the first page before the user leaves the site, that session will not be considered a bounce unless the event fired was explicitly specified as a non-interaction event.
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I would like to create a custom report that will have a table like so:
page name visit time
page1 15:30:15
page2 15:31:12
page1 15:30:45
and so on.
Is it possible to create such a report in Google Analytics?
The highest level of precision available by default is the minute available with the ga:dateHourMinute dimension:
https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/dimensions-metrics-explorer/?#ga:dateHourMinute
If you need more precision than minutes, you have to implement a custom dimension (eg to record seconds or milliseconds).
Here is an example for implementing such hit timestamp with millisecond precision using GTM:
https://www.simoahava.com/analytics/13-useful-custom-dimensions-for-google-analytics/#11-hit-timestamp
You need to pass a custom dimension (called in this case 'visit time') at hit level that contains the timestamp of the hit when it is sent to Analytics.
I have a goal completion when user visit the specific page. Also I'm sending event from this page to count how many times user visited this page during the session (and for some other info).
Now I'm trying to make a custom report (flat table) that have info about:
Session ID (custom dimension),
Event Category (secondary dimension),
Goal completion (metric)
and Pages/Session metric.
In this case I see that Goal completion is zero for every session although I see events from the page (and I know that goal was completed in every session cause it's testing site).
If I remove Event category from custom report then Goal completion equals 1 for each session (that is true info).
And if I'm trying to use Event category in filter it is the same situation - I don't see Goal completed.
'Event Category' is a hit-level dimension, but other dimensions and metrics have session-level. It's invalid dimension-metric combination.
Try to use custom segment with conditions: include sessions where 'Event Category' = [your value].
Good explanation of scope in GA: https://www.bounteous.com/insights/2016/11/30/understanding-scope-google-analytics-reporting/
I am deeply confused by the difference between them.
I know totals.visits = 1 when a session has at least an interaction type event, and that a session with only a non-interaction type event will have totals.visits = 0. ** In this case, a session meant a unique combination of fullVisitorid + visitId.
I have come across definitions of Bounce online that states that a bounce is defined as a session where the entrance page = exit page. Some definition goes on further to say that the session must also have no interaction type event to be a bounce, on top of entrance page = exit page.
So, what is the difference between them?
P.S. I ask because there can be sessions with both totals.visits = 1 and totals.bounces = 1, which means a bounce is not the same as a session with null totals.visits and vice versa.
P.P.S. If a pageview is an interaction hit, how can a session have no interaction event? Is it possible to have a session without pageview?
You can have a session with only the main tracker loaded (meaning pageview) and both pageview and some event tracked on the page.
Those events can be either no-interaction=1 or 0 (with 0 being the default one, meaning that this event will be counted as an interaction).
A pageview is one type of interaction, while an event is another one (but it may or may not be tracked as an interaction, depending on the setup mentioned above).
This means that every time someone visits your site, and you fire a pageview, it is treated as an interaction and later a bounce if they leave that page without any other interaction tracked upon it in the next 30 minutes (during one session). That further interaction might be a next pageview or an event.
Now, you can have a specific case in which you don't have a pageview, but you do send an event interaction. If the visitor leaves the page not going to any other page, triggers no other (interaction) event, and if that single event is set to be no-interaction=1 as well, then you definitely don't have a bounce, since there was no interaction at all tracked.
totals.visits = null means that within the session there were no any interactions, but could be non-interaction event. Bounced session means that within 1 session there was at least 1 interaction (pageview)
I'm using Google Analytics event tracking to count the number of unique users.
A flag on localStorage is used to determine who is new and who is returning. I am aware that incognito or clear cookies makes the user looks like a new one, that's ok.
The problem is that on the GA reports screen there are 10 different numbers for the same single event, that should all be the same!
Which one is correct? What do the others mean?
Normal Precision setting:
Total Events 12958 % of Total: 25.16% (51494)
Unique Events 12599 % of Total 26.36% (47790)
Event Category Total Events 58805 (100%) Unique Events 57241 (100%)
Higher Precision:
Total Events 26045 % of Total: 31.64% (82313)
Unique Events 57241 % of Total 33.28% (76158)
Event Category Total Events 58805 (100%) Unique Events 57241 (100%) <-- same as before
Thank You!
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