Hi James,

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

What I'm trying to understand is the behavior of visitors to a specific
section of our site that was used for a campaign.

What I've done is create a custom report using absolute unique visitors by
page, and then applied a custom advanced segment to understand the number of
visitors who visited the page, and also visited another specific page
elsewhere on our site.

I've been using custom reports and advanced segments for a while now, and
have a good grasp of what segmentation is all about. This, however, is the
first time I've used the absolute unique visitors tracking within the custom
reports.

When I apply an advanced segment that is part of the set built in within GA
to my custom report, I see the full number of unique visits with the segment
defined below it. This is exactly what I expect to see. Here's an example
when I look at my entire site for the past month:

Unique Visitors
All Visits: 248,650
Non-bounce Visits: 190,135

The problem appears when I filter the data to report on a specific set of
pages, and then apply an advanced segment to the custom report. I tested
this with both my custom segment and the same non-bounce visits segment used
in the example above, and the results are the same.

1) before applying the advanced filter:

Unique Visitors
All Visits: 5022

2) after applying the advanced filter:

Unique Visitors
All Visits: 2241
Non-bounce Visits: 1191

In this case, I don't understand why there is any reduction in the number of
"all visits" reported.

I hope this clarifies my question/issue.

Alan


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