I am using the gapi class to access analytics data. It works great and i have daily visits to my site. What I would like is to be able to get hourly visits over a date range, say from 11th Jan to 12th Jan (2 days) which would return me 48 data points, one for each hour in teh range. I'm sure this is simple but I cannot find how to do it anywhere. Presumably there is some setting in the metrics parameter of the requestReportData() method that allows this???
Any help gratefully received, thanks...
David
To do this, you'd need to set two dimensions
Dimensions: ga:hour, ga:date
Metric: ga:visits
You can test out this query on the Google Analytics API Query Explorer.
Untested, this should look like this with gapi.class.php:
$ga->requestReportData($profile_id,array('hour','date'),array('visits'), null, null, '2011-01-11', '2011-01-12', 1, 48);
You'll get data back that looks like this:
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Question: What is the right way to filter active users based on the presence of an event?
I'm trying to report on a count of users that have performed a particular action (purchased an item) on my site.
The aim is to have a Daily Unique Buyer (akin to DAU or 1dayUsers) and Monthly Unique Buyer (akin MAU or 30dayUser) metric.
For the Daily Unique Buyer metric I have tried two separate approaches and I am getting different results for both.
Approach 1) Use ga:Users metric and apply filter ga:eventCategory=="Purchase"
Approach 2) Create custom Segment, Ensure that Advanced Filter condition is for Users (not Sessions) and set the same filter ga:eventCategory=="Purchase"
The first approach seems to yield the desired result when compared to the second.
Unfortunately, the first approach does not extend to computing the same metric for Monthly Unique Buyers.
Most post on StackOverflow suggest that creating a segment (approach 2) is the right way forward. This however, yields more users than events, which can't be correct.
Even more perplexing - Applying the segment in Audience -> Active Users interface yields a different result to programmatic app-script query below
const optArgs = {
'dimensions': 'ga:date',
'sort': '-ga:date','
start-index': '1',
'max-results': 250,
'segment: 'gaid::xxxx',
}
Analytics.Data.Ga.get(
myViewId, startDate, endDate, 'ga:1dayUsers', optArgs
);
update: For those that struggled with this. I don't claim to understand why, but I was able to get the correct number by querying the desired metrics 1dayUsers and 30dayUsers one date at a time.
Running the report over a date range failed. I checked this with the list of actual active users (under User Explorer in the interface) and both 1 day and 30 day metrics are correct.
Would love for someone to explain why this is needed.
I am working on GA reporting metrics in Power BI via reporting API.
While I create a query with some very basic attributes like sessions and users, I get same values as I can see directly in google analytics dashboard.
but when I add more dimensions and attributes, say, user type, pageviews or gender etc, alingwith users and sessions, the value of users and sessions is inflated.
I have tried to go through various documentations, where I know there are some restrictions that not all dimensions and attributes can be put together, but in this case, GA has allowed me to add these basic attributes togehter but the results are not matching.
Is there any documentation to explain this behaviur, or has anyone experienced anything like this.
has this to do something to do with binning, though I would expect, even if the difference is due to different binnings on different counters, the difference should be a smaller value, not the ones I am getting, which is huge(multiple times of error ) not just few percent of error.
I have come across with this problem and the reason is because of a limit on Google Analytics Core Reporting API.
Sampling thresholds
Default reports are not subject to sampling.
Ad-hoc queries of your data are subject to the following general
thresholds for sampling:
Analytics Standard: 500k sessions at the property level for the date
range you are using
Analytics 360: 100M sessions at the view level for
the date range you are using
i.e. Once the data you are requesting is returning more than 500k sessions / rows of data in a query, Google Analytics will return sampling data but not exact data.
The way I work around with this limit is to break down the query into separate queries (to make sure the returned data is fewer than 500k rows) with a date filter (per year, month or day, depends on data volume) apply to each of it. Then append all the queries back into one.
Sample M code:
(year as number, month as number) =>
let
Source = GoogleAnalytics.Accounts(),
...,
#"Added Items" = Cube.Transform(#"...", {{Cube.AddAndExpandDimensionColumn, "ga:pagePath", {"ga:pagePath"}, {"Page"}}, {Cube.AddAndExpandDimensionColumn, "ga:pageDepth", {"ga:pageDepth"}, {"Page Depth"}}, {Cube.AddAndExpandDimensionColumn, "ga:pageTitle", {"ga:pageTitle"}, {"Page Title"}}, {Cube.AddAndExpandDimensionColumn, "ga:date", {"ga:date"}, {"Date"}}, {Cube.AddMeasureColumn, "Page Load Time (ms)", "ga:pageLoadTime"}}),
#"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Added Items", each [Date] >= #date(year, month, 1) and [Date] <= Date.EndOfMonth(#date(year, month, 1)))
in
#"Filtered Rows"
Result:
With Google Analytics API I am getting the value of ga:avgSessionDuration.
The result is this value: 118.72727272727273
But when I go on the Google Analytics interface I get: 00:01:59
I look at the documentation and it says that ga:avgSessionDuration result value is Data Type TIME...
What does that mean? I just cannot find more detail about TIME Data Type.
How do I get 118.72727272 to 00:01:59?
That looks like seconds to me. 118.72 seconds equals 00:01:59.
Update: and now that I'm looking at the link you referred to in your question, it specifically says "seconds".
The average duration of user sessions represented in total seconds.
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/dimsmets#view=detail&group=session&jump=ga_avgsessionduration
I am new to this forum so I hope I asking my question in the right place.
I have a problem inserting a datetime into a Google Spreadsheet from a form created in Appinventor2;
In app inventor2 I created a form that fills in a google spreadsheet. Basically I merged the Pizza Party example (http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/pizzaparty.html) with this example http://puravidaapps.com/spreadsheet.php to use google spreadsheet instead of fusion table.
the user selects in how many minutes he wants his order and then sees all the orders in a table sorted by delivery time.
Problem A)
Firstly, i want to save the current datetime + the desired delay into the google spreadsheet and sort the table by this new datetime.
1) when i use the block "call clock format time" + "call clock addminutes" the spreadsheet is populated with a text, but then i can't sort the table by delivery datetime. in fact i believe the sorting is done on the number regardless of the am/pm or day of the month. so for example instead of having 4am, 6am, 2pm, 3pm i get : 2pm, 3pm, 4am, 6am.
2) I then tried to remove the block "call clock format time" and in the google form i kept the field format = text
but the google spreadsheet is populated with the following:
java.util.GregorianCalendar[time=1395531335908,areFieldsSet=true,lenient=true,zone=Europe/Dublin,firstDayOfWeek=2,minimalDaysInFirstWeek=4,ERA=1,YEAR=2014,MONTH=2,WEEK_OF_YEAR=12,WEEK_OF_MONTH=4,DAY_OF_MONTH=22,DAY_OF_YEAR=81,DAY_OF_WEEK=7,DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH=4,AM_PM=1,HOUR=11,HOUR_OF_DAY=23,MINUTE=35,SECOND=35,MILLISECOND=908,ZONE_OFFSET=0,DST_OFFSET=0]
3) I then tried to remove the block "call clock format time" and in the google form I changed the field format = time
but then the google spreadsheet isn't populated with anything.
4)I tried using the segment block, but after a while I realised the block "format time" actually returns this format: "hh:mm:ss AM/PM"
so selecting the 5 characters is not good enough because it does not take into account of the am/pm element as well as the day of the month.
5) I found a temp solution by defining the desired delivery time as a new global variable, and extracting a string in the format hh:mm by joining the blocks ".hour instant" and ".minute instant".
However this is not a final solution because what i extracted is of course a string of text and when sorting, 01:10 will be always considered smaller than 23:50 for example, regardless of the date.
So is there a way of actually saving in the google spreadsheet not a string of text, but actually the date and time?
Problem B)
Secondly, I would like to filter/show only the rows of the google spreadsheet have a delivery time expired by no more than 1 hour (as well as orders with delivery time in the future e.g. in 2 hours from now()).
I tried using some Google Visualization API Query Language commands, altering the url of the google spreadsheet (like WHERE "now() - Delivery Time < 60 mins)" (cannot remember the exact code I wrote) but unsucessfully.
Would anyone know how to filter my results?
thanks in advance
alterettore
So there's a few things to note.
If you're using Taifun's example as you mention, you'll notice that when you submit data to Google Spreadsheets using a form, the first column is always a timestamp, even if you're not submitting a date or time. Trying to send the current date/time is redundant - go ahead and make use of what Google provided.
Google Spreadsheets (and Excel) store Date/Time as a number. If you want to store a date in GS, the best way to do so is not formatted text, but by sending a number. Use AppInventor to calculate the number you need. For example, today (April 27) in GS is 41756. Noon today would be 41756.5
To generate this number, start with AI's Millisecond function. NOTE: Both GS and AI use milliseconds, but they have different 0 points, so you have to manipulate the result a bit. The formula I've used in AI in the past is this:
GS Date/Time = (Clock1.GetMillis(Clock1.Now) / 86400000) + 25569
Hope this helps!
When I query Google Analytics for traffic (ga:visits,ga:pageviews) filtered by ga:userDefinesValue with no dimension specified, within a time period (e.g. 2012-08-01 to 2012-09-01), I get a result:
Your query matched 1 results and the API only returned the following 1 results:
ga:visits ga:pageviews
7 21
The problem is that when I add any dimension to the query (e.g. ga:country or ga:pagePath) i get an empty results set:
(none)
no results found
What could be the reason for this behavior?
Thanks.
From your description you state you are using country and pagePath as a metric, this will fail as they are dimensions.
Add ga:country as a dimension and the report should work.