I have been using visitors with ga:country filters to get specific country's visitors. For example to get the number of visitors from US, I used the filter of 'ga:country==United%20States'. But I am wondering if I can do something like 'ga:country!=United%20States'? I guess I can subtract ga:country==United%20States from total visitors but I am wondering.
The easet way of doing this is to create a filter ga:country. A filter will let you remove a subset of the data returned by a query. Think of it like a where clause in SQL.
Filter=ga:country!%3DUnited%20States
That translates to
Filter=ga:country != United States
I made a simple report on my personal dashboard the Google Analtyics to test it.
Added info on filtering:
You can add more then one filter by seprateing
OR operator is defined using a comma (,).
AND operator is defined using a semi-colon (;).
You can mix and match Metric and Dimensions in the same filter.
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Need to group some pages on my site together but apparently content grouping would only be forward facing. Is there a way to apply content grouping to prior data or create a calculated column as such which would allow GA to filter and group older data?
Is there a way to apply content grouping to prior data?
No, content grouping only applies going forward.
or create a calculated column as such which would allow GA to filter
and group older data?
No, any data you add to GA is only available as of the moment you create it.
What you can do:
GA:
Use Query Filters (not view filters) or segments: filters/segments don't create any data, they just filter it. So if you create 1 filter/segment per group and query the data, you will effectively have the same data as if you had done content grouping
Use Regex: GA supports regular expression which might help you create the filters you need
Use the API: since applying filters/segments might be tedious to do (and repeat) via the UI, you might want to use the API, for instance via the Google Sheets GA API add-on (see further details below)
Example of Google Sheets GA API add-on query to group some content that would match all pages which start with /foo or /bar (see list of API dimensions and metrics, see legacy filters syntax):
ga:pagePath=~^/(foo|bar)
Once you have figured out 1 query for 1 group you can clone them, query all your data, and then reaggregate it.
Google Data Studio:
GDS has a feature called Calculated fields which effectively allows you to create content groupings which apply to both historical and new data. Most likely you want to do this with a CASE statement:
CASE
WHEN REGEXP_MATCH(Page,'^/(foo|bar)') THEN "Group A"
WHEN REGEXP_MATCH...
ELSE "Other"
END
I would like to filter certain sources and mediums (specifically email clients). I need to keep the dimension as one column (I use the maximum number of dimensions - 7).
The filter works fine when I have only one sourceMedium such as:
ga:sourceMedium!=amail.centrum.cz / referral
Filter doesn’t work at all when I use two sourceMedium:
ga:sourceMedium!=amail.centrum.cz / referral,ga:sourceMedium!=mail.google.com / referral
It doesn’t matter If I use AND / OR, the query doesn’t output the desired data.
I assume that there supposed to be some delimiter which could identify that amail.centrum.cz is one string which is delimited by another one. I already tried to use ' at the beginning and at the end of the string, but it seems that it doesn’t work.
Is there anything that I missed in docs or anything else? Looking for your help :)
BTW: I'm aware of the solution: Pull out data from GA, filter data manually (compare output data vs my list of email clients what I would like to exclude)
I'm trying to filter website conversions from Google Analytics for a dashboard. However since it is a mixture of third party leads, events, and page path that contribute to the leads, I have to combine different types of filters. However combining folling metrics, the https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/query-explorer/ shows me the value 0 even if that's not correct.
Metrics: ga:totalEvents
Dimension:ga:date
ga:pagePath=#DialogNavigatorVertical,ga:eventAction==Texting form submit
I have tried multiple solutions, but can't figure out how to get the correct data. Can I not combine pagePath and evenAction?
Thank you so much for all your kind help,
Anna
Events by definition are not page views. This means that an Event dimension (category, action, label) can't have page view metrics such as page views or average time on the page because that information does not relate to the specific event.
But you can definitely combine pagePath and evenAction. You are getting wrong results because of one of the following reasons
In your filter, ga:pagePath=#DialogNavigatorVertical is wrong, it must be either == or !=. it cant be an assignment operator
IF you wish to combine two filter conditions using AND that means both must be true, use ;. Semicolon is used for AND operator in filters
IF you wish to combine two filter conditions using OR that means both must be true, use ,. Comma is used for OR operator in filters
In case you are using core reporting api from a backend script, please URL encode the call before hitting. like == must be %3D%3D, space must be %20 and so on.
Please have a look into settings here : https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v3/reference#filters
I'm trying to add some filters to request for news in bing api but currently I don't get any effects of doing this ( for example filter for news from current month).
I'm trying to this with : https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v5.0/news/search?freshness=month&?category=business , and replacing some filters here but I always getting the same result.
Currently i want to add three filters : freshness, category and language for news from current day and month.
So it is bug or I'm doing something wrong with filters ?
One problem is that you have an extra "?" in your query. You only need the first one, and then you can use "&" to delimit individual parameters:
https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v5.0/news/search?freshness=month&category=business
You might also try adding a market to the query string, like so:
https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v5.0/news/search?freshness=month&category=business&mkt=en-us
I'm using 7.0 and don't know what headers you're passing, so I can't test this directly, but it's possible a default market isn't being set. Since categories are market specific, then depending on how Bing handles this, it could plausibly prevent your category from being used.
The metrics for my Query is as below:
ga:eventValue
The dimensions for my query is as below:
ga:eventLabel,ga:eventAction,ga:year,ga:month,ga:day,ga:hour,ga:minute
Now when I apply a filter with ga:hour==13 then I get the results filtered out for ga:hour=13 which is perfectly fine.
But When I query using multiple filters ga:eventAction==xxx,ga:hour==13 the result is not displayed correctly. My expectation is that I should be getting the results where the hour is 13 and eventAction=xxx but it gives a lot more results.
How the filters work when we have multiple filters? What is the maximum number of filters allowed? Does always the filter needs to be a dimension or metric?
Thanks a lot for your time.
Your filter (ga:eventAction==xxx,ga:hour==13) is using a comma to separate the two conditions. With GA filters, the comma is the logical OR. If you use a semicolon instead, that will be the logical AND, which should give you want you want.
You can read more on the filter syntax here. It should answer all your other questions:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v3/reference#filters