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brianjherbert
brianjherbert
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October 16, 2015
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Visitor ID in Debugger is Different from Data Wharehouse

  • October 16, 2015
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Hi,

I am trying to find out my own traffic by comparing the Visitor ID that is being sent to me via the debugger with the Visitor ID being recorded in Omniture. It looks like there is some sort of conversion that is happening though. All the Omniture data is numeric (with an underscore) while the debugger is alpha-numeric (with a hyphen).  Any idea how to get these number to match, or is there another method to see the paths of unique visitors?

Any help would be appretiated!

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Best answer by TanmayMathur

Hi,

Apologies for a delayed response.

The different numbers you are seeing is the conversion of the visitor id from base 16 to base 10. This is done to save long strings of data. This article should explain it - https://marketing.adobe.com/resources/help/kb/en_US/analytics/kb/visitor-id-populated.html

Let me know if you have further questions.

TM

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bkoth
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September 4, 2019

Hi,

thanks for the answer.

Meanwhile we're about to switch to the Experience Cloud Visitor ID (s_ecid cookie value) which - at least currently - does not seem to be transformed/shortened by Adobe.

Funny enough the response to my support ticket on Adobe returned more or less just a copy+pasted excerpt from a help page, saying the s_vi cookie contains a base16 value which is then transformed to a base10 value on AA side (thank you, captain obvious).

Still waiting for my response, asking how exactly that is reproducible since the obvious approaches do not seem to work - anymore.

Cheers,

Björn

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