Basics of Segment Containers
A Segment sets conditions to filter a visitor based on his or her attributes or interactions with your site. To set conditions in a segment, you set rules to filter visitors based on visitor characteristics and/or navigation traits. To further break down visitor data, you can filter based on specific visits and/or page view hits for each visitor. The Segment Builder provides a simple architecture to build these subsets and apply rules as nested, hierarchical Visitor > Visit > Hit containers.
About Containers
The container architecture employed in the Segment Builder defines Visitor as the outermost container, containing overarching data specific for the visitor across visits and page views. A nested Visit container lets you set rules to break down the visitor's data based on visits, and a nested Hit container lets you break down visitor information based on individual page views. Each container lets you report across a visitor's history, interactions broken down by visits, or break down individual hits.
Visitor Container
The Visitor container includes every visit and page view for visitors within a specified time frame. A segment at the Visitor level returns the page that meets the condition plus all other pages viewed by the visitor (and only constrained by defined date ranges). As the most broadly-defined container, reports generated at the Visitor container level will return page views across all visits and lets you generate a multi-visit analysis. Consequently, the Visitor container is the most susceptible to change based on defined date ranges.
Visitor containers can include values based on a visitor's overall history:
- Days Before First Purchase
- Original Entry Page
- Original Referring Domains
Visit Container
The Visit container lets you identify page interactions, campaigns, or conversions for a specific web session. The Visit container is the most commonly used container because it captures behaviors for the entire visit session once the rule is met and lets you define which visits you want to include or exclude in building and applying a segment. It can help you answer the question of how many visitors viewed the News and Sports section in the same visit? Or pages that attributed to a successful conversion to a sale?
Visit containers include values based on occurrence per visit:
- Visit Number
- Entry Page
- Return Frequency
- Participation Metrics
- Linearly allocated metrics
Hit Container
The Hit container defines which page hits you would like to include or exclude from a segment. It is the most narrow of the containers available to let you identify specific clicks and page view where a condition is true, letting you view a single tracking code, or isolate behavior within a particular section of your site. You may also want to pinpoint a specific value when an action occurs, such as the marketing channel when an order was placed.
Hit containers include values based single page breakdowns:
- Products
- List Props
- List eVars
- Merchandising eVars (in context of events)Note: If you use this container on a value that persists, such as an evar, it will pull in every hit where that value is persisting. In the case of a tracking code that expires after a week, that value could be persisting across multiple visits.
Logic Group Container
The Logic Group container allows you to provide a separate container within the segment rules to filter entities not based on hierarchy. For example, you may want to provide a container nested within the segment that filters based on Visitor. This type of logic requires you to break the hierarchy (as you are already have a top-level Visitor container) to filter only for selected visitors. This can be accomplished using the Logic Group container. See Logic Group examples for additional information.
For Further Information please visit: https://marketing.adobe.com/resources/help/en_US/analytics/segment/seg_container_overview.html
