Cross over traffic report for a single user between two different sites/domains

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June 19, 2019
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Hi,

I would like to know how to get a cross over report or traffic for the most important metrics like unique visitor, visits, etc. for a single user who visits two different domains(holds the same MID across both domains).

For example, lets assume

A single company owns two sites A & B. There are web properties and visitor cloud id services already implemented for both the sites separately and analytics is tracked separately in individual report suites. Both the sites have mostly the same functionalities and user behaviors.

I would like to see the traffic combined for both the sites for a single user. if a user visits siteA and then visits siteB, I would want to track the unique visitor count as 1 since it’s the same user across different domains/sites.

I tried using a rollup report combining traffic from both the sites but it combines the unique visitor count for both the site as 2 (1UV+1UV) for a same user.

If a single user visits SiteA and also SiteB, I would want to count it as 1 unique visitor.

Since the mid captured for both siteA and siteB for a single user is same, I would want to be able to see the unique visitor, visits and other important metrics between these two sites together under one report suite.

Could you kindly let me know any solutions that might help me with my requirements.

Note: MID value is already same for a user between two sites.

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Best answer by David_Jerome

It's a very long process, but if your sites have the same structure (as ours did), then you can do the following:

1)Speak to Adobe account manager to ensure you have a heavily discounted secondary server calls.

2)Set an evar for the brand and website (e.g. Pepsi|US or Pepsi|FR)

3)Send the data into a new secondary RSID and the same time.

Once we had YOY data, we stopped putting the data in the original RSID's and used virtual report suites.

+points - works exactly as you desire, completely gets rid of any desire to have more than 1 RSID in workspace at time as you can compare sites. Simplifies report building.

-points = lots of report re gigging, circa 20% higher analytics costs during cross over. You are stuck with 1 currency at the end of it. Marketing channels can get alter (1% to 2%) if customers move between sites.

Overall - I would highly recommend this approach if it feasible.