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    <title>topic Re: Visit number issue in Adobe Analytics Discussions</title>
    <link>https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-analytics-discussions/visit-number-issue/m-p/247707#M834</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;could you explain a little bit more what you try to calculate? the example you mentioned would always give 100% (because every unique user must have a "first visit" in a defined date range). But I guess I missed a point...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;To get the "first visits" in a certain time range you need to combine 2 cases:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;OL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;visitors with 1 visit in the desired date range: include this visit&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;visitors with 2 or more visits in the desired date range: you need to get the first visits by do some stacking of visitor and visits containers (basically very similar as the Tip from @audreysalerno: &lt;A href="http://bit.ly/SalernoTips2018"&gt;bit.ly/SalernoTips2018&lt;/A&gt;)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;if you combine those 2 segments you have all the first visits in a certain date range.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2018 20:49:23 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Urs_Boller</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2018-09-13T20:49:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Visit number issue</title>
      <link>https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-analytics-discussions/visit-number-issue/m-p/247705#M832</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I want to constrain a visitor metric to show only users who made their first visit within a particular time frame.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;I started using visit number = 1 but this proves difficult due to AA's visit counting system: "The visit number is based on the lifetime of the visitor, not the selected date range." (taken from here: &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://forums.adobe.com/external-link.jspa?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmarketing.adobe.com%2Fresources%2Fhelp%2Fen_US%2Freference%2Freports_visitor_number.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;https://marketing.adobe.com/resources/help/en_US/reference/reports_visitor_number.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;)&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This seems to mean that you can't sensibly do a calculated metric like visit divided by visitor for a first visit within a time frame.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I’d like to think that this is a known issue. Any ideas appreciated!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:37:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>david71830963</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-09-11T10:37:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Visit number issue</title>
      <link>https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-analytics-discussions/visit-number-issue/m-p/247706#M833</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have used visit number as well as &lt;A href="https://marketing.adobe.com/resources/help/en_US/reference/reports_return_frequency.html" title="https://marketing.adobe.com/resources/help/en_US/reference/reports_return_frequency.html"&gt;Return Frequency&lt;/A&gt; in some of my segments when doing what it sounds like you are trying to do.&amp;nbsp; Hope it works out for you!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2018 20:26:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-analytics-discussions/visit-number-issue/m-p/247706#M833</guid>
      <dc:creator>kristinr8966887</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-09-12T20:26:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Visit number issue</title>
      <link>https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-analytics-discussions/visit-number-issue/m-p/247707#M834</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;could you explain a little bit more what you try to calculate? the example you mentioned would always give 100% (because every unique user must have a "first visit" in a defined date range). But I guess I missed a point...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;To get the "first visits" in a certain time range you need to combine 2 cases:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;OL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;visitors with 1 visit in the desired date range: include this visit&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;visitors with 2 or more visits in the desired date range: you need to get the first visits by do some stacking of visitor and visits containers (basically very similar as the Tip from @audreysalerno: &lt;A href="http://bit.ly/SalernoTips2018"&gt;bit.ly/SalernoTips2018&lt;/A&gt;)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;if you combine those 2 segments you have all the first visits in a certain date range.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2018 20:49:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-analytics-discussions/visit-number-issue/m-p/247707#M834</guid>
      <dc:creator>Urs_Boller</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-09-13T20:49:23Z</dc:date>
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