Hi James,

Yes, those are the steps I took, but with different results. What I find
most perplexing is that the behaviour of the custom report/advanced segement
combination is not consistent across my site. Sections of my site are driven
by different content management systems and I thought that might be the root
of the problem. I tested various the sections and am seeing the reporting
discrepancies consistently inconsistent.

My guess is it's a bug in Google Analytics. My question now is if I can be
confident in the values being generated by the advanced segments.

Next up for me is a thorough review of the code to see if I've created any
problems there.

Alan




On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:08 PM, insightrjames <insightrjames@...>wrote:

>
>
> Hi Alan, This is quite interesting. I replicated your situation (with a
> couple of assumptions) using a couple of my clients and couldn't
> replicate your problem. Here's what I did: Create advanced segment
> ("Yahoo Groups Test") - Page matches exactly /content/page1 AND -
> Page matches exactly /content/page2 Created a custom report with Page
> dimension only and Pageviews & Unique Visitors as metrics. Applied this
> segment with All Visits segment, this replicated your first line >
> Unique Visitors > All Visits: 10,000 (example) > Yahoo Groups Test:
> 2,000 (example) I then ran a page filter: - "Page" contains
> "/content/page3" When this filter was applied, only the table data was
> filtered (as I would expect) so, I get: > Unique Visitors > All Visits:
> 10,000 (fake) > Yahoo Groups Test: 2,000 (fake) and in the custom
> report table (as defined above): /content/page3 All Visits:
> | 100 (page views) | 50 (unique visitors) Yahoo Groups Test: |
> 0 (page views) | 0 (unique visitors) So what you're seeing (unless I
> didn't replicate as you had set this up) looks like it might be a bug in
> GA (I've seen these before).
> Did I replicate what you were doing?
>
> Cheers, J
>
> --- In webanalytics@yahoogroups.com <webanalytics%40yahoogroups.com>, Alan
> Etkin <aetkin@...> wrote:
> >
> > 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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> >
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