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.
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I am trying to set up a feature where users can submit an entry (a single field) every time they use a page.
I would like these entries to be displayed in a single row in a view - example below:
Page Entry 1 Entry 2 Entry 3
Today's height (cm) 155.1 155.1 156.2
Today's weight (kg) 75.5 75.6 75.7
So far I have set up a form which automatically populates the page and user, whilst collecting the single entry.
I can then display this using gravity views and the advanced filter extension to only show users their own entries.
I cannot however display each entry in a row like the example above.
Help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Here what I want is get the number of returning visitor in percentage in scorecard.What I tried is tried creating calculating filed but didn't able to succeed
What I tried is applied the usertype = "returning visitor" filter but it shows only number and I want percentage.
Expected result is %returning visitors
Unfortunately, this method isn't entirely accurate. GA double counts a user if they are both a returning user and new user if they complete more than 1 session within the time period that you have listed.
My work around is to blend a data source with itself: 1 with a Google segment for returning users, 1 without.
The formula for the calculated field should use these two metrics:
ga:users (Users): total number of users
ga:newUsers (New Users): total number of new users
ga:newUsers/ga:users will give you the percentage of new users, the rest would be return. So just subtract the % from 1. Like so
Returning visitor in data studio
Showing the total number of returning visitors via the Scorecard
There is 2 ways to make it
1
Step 1
usertype = "returning visitor" pie chart or in table
Just make a new Pie chart or table then add to demensions Usertype
Step 2:
Add a new scoreboard
Make a filter for scoreboard just to show Returning of New visitors.
Done !! Showing the total number of returning visitors via the Scorecard.
Step 3 showing as a %
Add a new scoreboard without any filter and just show session.
Click at Scoreboard which shows Returning or New visitors. Click also in sametime at the scoreboard which shows session.. then right click on the mouse, choise the Merge data options.
Data studio makes automaticly percentage of both data. You get it!!!!
Second Way
You'll need to create a segment for in Google Analytics to use in Data Studio
Make a segment for returning visitors in Google Analytics.
Add a new scoreboard in data studio, choose just made segment. You will see the total Returning visitors in scoreboard.
follow step 2 and 3 ..
Good luck..
I use the following query parameters in Google Analytics:
start-date=2017-10-01
end-date=2017-10-01
metrics=ga:users
When I filter by ga:pagePath==/charity/ the result is 100.
When I filter by ga:pagePath=~/charity/ the result is 139.
When I filter by ga:pagePath=~/charity/;ga:pagePath!=/charity/ The result for some reason is 71. How is it possible?
Moreover, if I add the ga:pagePath dimension when I filter by ga:pagePath=~/charity/ I can see that the results add up to way more than 139. In fact, it shows that users for /charity is 100 and the rest of URLs add up to 137 (counted them manually). Could someone, please, help me to understand what am I missing here?
I wager that at least part of the problem is that you query a user scope metric and filter by a hit based dimension.
A user can see multiple pages that contain "charity" in the url, so the total from all pages is more than total users, e.g, if one user has seen page /charity/a and page charity/b the rows would add to two users, but the absolute total is just the single person.
I am new to querying GA with event label filters and am trying to work out my mistake with the following syntax. I have 3 different event label filters on 3 separate reports which are identical, except for the variation in this query:
Report filter 1: ga:eventLabel==Login - Create Account Step 2
Report filter 2: ga:eventLabel==Login - Create Account Step 2;ga:eventLabel!=Where to Buy Step 2 Submit Query
Report filter 3: ga:eventLabel==Login - Create Account Step 2;ga:eventLabel==Where to Buy Step 2 Submit Query
Now, I would expect that the count of sessions and users I get from report filter #1 would equal the sum of results from report filters #2 and #3. But actually, report filter #2: ga:eventLabel==Login - Create Account Step 2;ga:eventLabel!=Where to Buy Step 2 Submit Query returns counts of users and sessions orders of magnitude larger than the other 2 queries. (like 70K vs 120ish). Feels like there's a classic beginner conceptual error I'm making here, but I'm not sure how to google the the right question. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks for any help.
What you are trying to query with session/user metrics won't really work the reason being is that events are hits and so filtering that way filters on the hits. The way to get around that is to create segments of users that have triggered the events that you are interested in.
Now if you were to report on events/unique events using those filters based on the logic there I would expect #1 and #2 to return the same results and #3 to contain no values.
Is there a way to call the Google Feed API so that it skips X number of entries in a feed?
To explain the context:
I'd like to load additional entries on demand from a particular feed. So a user can click a "Load more" type button, and an ajax function fires to retrieve additional entries. Just to put some numbers on the scenario, lets say I load 10 entries by default, and want to load an additional 10 each time a user clicks on a "load more" button.
With the historical entries / numEntries API functions, I can essentially solve my problem by retrieving 10 + ( number of entries already loaded ), and only output the last 10. But this is pretty ugly, because every time a user loads another 10 entries, they have to load ALL the previous entries as well, so the load gets larger everytime they load more entries. Seems pretty inefficient!
Inspecting the API docs at Google, I couldn't find any reference to a "skip entries", or "start from X entry" type of API method / variable, so I could make my ajax call nice and lean, and just get 10 entries, starting from ( number of entries already loaded).
Anybody have any experience / suggestions for me?
I think you'll have to load all items first, but only display 10 at first. If they click "show more" you then show them the next 10 (you'll have to keep an internal pointer of your position in the list of items). So essentially, you aren't "loading" 10 more, you're "showing" 10 more.