in GA if I create a custom report filtered by a specific page or source/medium I see an incoherent number of visits, in particular unique visitors are higher than visits.
If I remove the filter visits become coherent with visitors and page views!
I found what I believe is the answer in the link below.
http://www.michaelwhitaker.com/blog/2010/04/23/unique-visitors-0-visits-and-pages-in-web-analytics/
To detail the answer is quite lengthy, but in summary - for purposes
of attribution, google credits a visit at the page level to the first
page visited in a single visit. However it credits every page viewed
to a unique visitor.
So basically what the visit metric stands for in the report you showed
is how many visits started their visit on that page. To find out how
many actual VISITS went to a particular page use unique pageviews
since it counts pageviews only once, for every visit.
Confusing...yes. However it appears to be the reason.
Source: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/27276
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I've been struggling for some time to get an answer, and still can't find it out on the web. I would like to to a seemingly simple thing:
1) Facebook page A sends me some visitors through a link to MYPAGE.com/?utm_campaign=mycampaign& etc. etc.
2) I count the unique page views (not users) received from people that have clicked this link, and no other visits are counted as being part of these (e.g. direct visits of someone recurring that has first come across to the site through that campaign should not be included in the count)
This way, I'd like to monitor exactly the unique page views coming from different facebook pages which I have a partnership with. And another thing I cannot figure is: how do I make this work on subdomains too?
Best regards
Step 1 - You need to have different utm_campaign values for each Facebook page.
Step 2 - Create Google Analytics segment for that specific campaign.
Use "Filter Sessions" as you only want the sessions that came straight from Facebook.
Step 3 - Use Behaviour -> Site Content reports to see which pages those users visited.
I have a 3 page website. I want to know how many unique visitors visit each page of the website. That is how many unique visitors in page A, and from page how many reach page B and from page B how many reach page C.
But, on page A, there is an option for Male and Female. I want to further know how many Male Unique Visitors and how many Female Unique Visitors visited on each page.
I am unable to determine or understand how the eVars and success events will be set in this scenario.
Please help.
If you're using DTM then you can use page load rules to see how many people hit each page. You can use a custom event that fires on page b if the referrer is page a or whatever combination you want. You can use an event based rule that fires when they submit their form (I'm guess you have some sort of form) that is collecting their gender. Gender would go into an evar, I'd also store the referrer in an eVar if you're interested in how people travel around your site and then use some metrics in the adobe dashboard to get the segments that you want.
Those are all very simple things to do. If you still are having issues, you should check out the forums or docs
I've set up a few experiments with Google Analytics using its experiment interface and everything seems to be working fine, but I haven't been able to find the answer to how Google Analytics attributes reached goal to the variations, is the attribution session-based or user-based?
Here's a scenario:
User visits one of the page variations included in the experiment during a session, does something else on the website and closes it.
The next day the user comes back, opens my website in the same browser and completes the goal (without visiting the experiment variation page)
The question is: will the reached goal still be attributed to the variation page the user saw during the previous session or will it be discarded and won't be attributed to any of the variations, since the user didn't see the variation in the same session he completed the goal.
The reached goal should still be attributed to the variation page:
A user is considered part of an experiment once he or she has seen the
experiment page. For example, if a user sees the experiment page, then
comes back the next day, the second visit is counted, even if the user
does not view the experiment page again.
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6112437#
I am posting two screen shots of my Google Analytics in which Avg. Session Duration is different. Why is that ??
One screenshot is from Landing Page and other is from All Pages tab. I am using a WordPress plugin which shows page by page stats https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-analytify/ and It is showing that page stats from Landing page.
You're comparing two ways of looking at pages:
the first one (pages) describes how many pages were seen overall. In your case, 69 pageviews for that page and 61 entrances (notice that last number?)
the second one (landing pages) deceptively reports sessions starting on that given page. Because they're session-based, they take bounce rate into account. Remember that high bounce rate = low average session time. So those 61 sessions that started on that given page resulted in 90+% bounce rate.
Try applying a segment to exclude bounce sessions and you should see your average session time get much closer to the 2 minutes listed in the pages report
Landing pages will show you how people entered your web site and it is good for acquisition analysis.
All pages report will show you how your pages perform regardless if they entered the site through that page or not. This is why you see additional metrics such as %Exit rate (since bounce rate applies ONLY to landing page) and page value (since you can not run a conversion rate report on all pages).
You can use your ALL pages report in order to see how people navitgate to your site, which pages are important as "secondary level" pages and how they contribute to your conversion path.
You can read more in how to do that here: http://digitalinsightsworld.com/digital-insights/path-analysis-google-analytics-excel/
Most of the Site admin misunderstood between these two metrics.
Landing Page - Avg Session Duration - Continuous Page duration Avg Time
All Page (From Behaviour) - Avg Time on Page - Amount of time spend on single page.
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I am looking to find the number of visitors that see a certain subdomain on my website. I can find total views and unique views but not visitors. I thought you could do this fairly easily in the old GA but having a hard time finding it now.
The easiest way to do this is to create a custom report.
I'll share an easy example I created: https://www.google.com/analytics/web/template?uid=ReBbGcwqToSJeP_TyfrhsA
Look at report tab 1 to see visits and pageviews to your different pages. If you click the "Unique" report tab, you can see which hostname initiated the request and how many unique visitors was seen during that time period.