I am working with Google Analytics data und during the analysis I saw that I have wierd distribution of visits. For instance, the minimum visits for a page is 89, wich also has the highes freq count in my dataset. Then I have 177 visits for a page with the second highest freq count. I find this pattern every month...
Does anyone know anything about that?
It sounds like you might have some combination of repeated trackers, heavy spam or over-impactful bot traffic.
Repeated trackers an be identified using Realtime reporting: if you click onto the Page Views tag, does each page load trigger only one page view?
Spam can often be identified using the Hostname. Run a custom report looking at Hostnames, and you can see if it's coming from freebuttons.xyz or some equally scummy location.
Finally, bot traffic can be filtered out using an option in the view settings: try setting up a duplicate View with this setting on, and see how different the volumes are.
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I made a report of access to custom users and only 25% of users appear, the other 75% I do not know what happened.
Are you using the free version of Google Analytics? If so, your data is likely getting sampled. Try reducing your date range to just a day or two and see if it shows 100% of users. You can also try simplifying your segment so that you are looking at fewer data points. Here are the Google docs explaining sampling.
Your report only matches a portion of your traffic. Maybe you have a report filter, or maybe you are using a segment. This can also happen if you are trying to use a metric/dimension that only a portion of your traffic has. eg: Trying to see users by EventCategory will only include the users that had at least one event, not necessarily the same as the total number of users on your site.
I am trying to get the conversion rate for an individual page just like you get when running an A/B test. I want to find out how many times /page hits the goal of going to /thanks after a visitor is on it. I have tried a custom report but the only page that shows conversion rate stats is the actual thanks page. Any ideas?
You can create a custom segment of your users or sessions, who have visited a given page, or groups of pages. (Look for Conditions under Advanced group of New segment dialog.) You can filter your standard or custom reports for this segment only, and get the information, you are looking for.
I want to create a Google Analytics segment for our users who view at least a certain number of pages on our site. From what I can tell (please correct me if I'm wrong) this is easy to do if you don't care about what kind of page they view: you create a filter for the segment that checks to see if Unique Pageviews is greater than some value such as 4. However our site has a whole bunch of pages that I don't really care if someone reads (our "about page" for example). So what I'm trying to do is create a segment of how many people view at least X pages of what we call "Learning Content" (basically two specific page types on our site). How can I segment the users who read a certain amount of learning content?
Two types of pages fit into our definition of learning content. The first one has a URL matching a regex that sort of looks like /learning_content_1/.* and the second matches regex /learning_content_2/.*. I've already created a content group for learning content that correctly identifies these two content groups. However I wasn't able to find any way to filter a segment based on how many unique pageviews (or even just pageviews) come from a specific content grouping. Is this even possible? If not, how might I work around that?
The research I've done so far: Google Analytics: How to segment by many groups of pages was somewhat helpful but didn't address the question of how to create an actual GA segment based on pageview information for a content grouping or content group.
The only way I can think of handling this, is by associating a specific custom event that gets triggered on this page. Then you can create a segment that matches users who have that event category:
and total events greater than 4:
It's a workaround, and it doesn't work if you are tracking other events, but maybe that works for you?
I want to see how many transactions Facebook provides and the value of these in a webshop.
I have tried to do this in two different ways:
When I use the filter box and write facebook, i get 20 transactions from 30.000 visits.
But,
When i add an advanced segments (Include source containing facebook), I get 60 transactions from 25.000 visits.
How can i verify which one is true?
Check your tracking code for proper setup, in most cases it is a reason for this kind of trouble (use ga debugger for chrome or at least firebug's network monitoring).
Check that you're comparing the same time periods. Consider data sampling inaccuracy if you deal with a high traffic volume.
For verification purposes try to mark your facebook links with utm tags and track your visits/transactions in Campaigns report.
I am attempting to create goal funnels in GA for dynamic asp.net based pages. The funnel currently looks as follows:
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/market_home.aspx
/Category.aspx
/product.aspx
/Cart.aspx
/Checkout.aspx
/OrderReview.aspx
/Confirmation.aspx
The market_home, Category and product pages are dynamic and will contain various parameters ie:
/market_home.aspx?id=1
/Category.aspx?id=1
/product.aspx?id=1
I am using regular expression as my match setting (have tried head match as well). I still get two of my market home pages not being captured. It is only 2 out of 18.
I can't seem to figure out why it catches some, but not all of the traffic.
I also am not capturing incoming/outgoing traffic that is not at the start of the funnel. In other words, those visitors being captured in the funnel appear to complete the entire thing from start to finish. There are no visitors dropping out in the middle anywhere, which I can't believe.
The beginning of the URL will not change.
Any ideas what could be wrong?
I've got the same problem, i even asked about it couple days ago: Using regexp in Google Analytics Goal Funnel steps
I beleive the thing is that RegExp don't work properly in funnel steps. My solution for this is generating the same virtual pageview in every dynamically generated page and use it in the funnel. Goog practice is to create a separate profile for it and filter out those virtuals in the main to avoid data distortion.