How to have numbers of one page

[AliceFa1]

I need the numbers of one URL that belongs to a blog. I did in two different ways and the numbers were very diferent. I want to know what is the right way.

The first way that I configurate the dash to show me the results was just selecting a URL in a dimension "Page URL (full) (v8)". I put the part of the link that matter and then I push to the dash when the result was loaded. I put June 3 and July 31 in the date range. 

In the second way, in the same dashboard, I created a segment and I follow this exactly tutorial here:

1. Open Segment Builder
   In Adobe Analytics Workspace, go to the left panel and select Components > Segments, then click Create Segment.
2. Set the Scope
   In the Definition Builder, set the scope to Hit. This ensures the segment only includes hits (page views) that match the URL condition, not entire visits or visitors who may have visited other pages [1].
3. Add a Page URL Condition
   Drag the Page URL dimension into the definition area. Then:
   • Choose the operator "contains"
   • Paste the relevant part of the URL.

The numbers were different.

[Jennifer_Dungan · Accepted solution]

I am a bit confused by your first attempt?

So I would like to confirm. Let's say you have a blog:

https://www.domain.com/blog/blog-of-interest/

and in that blog, you have posts like:

https://www.domain.com/blog/blog-of-interest/123/

https://www.domain.com/blog/blog-of-interest/124/

https://www.domain.com/blog/blog-of-interest/125/

etc...

In the left panel, you search for "/blog/blog-of-interest/" and you pulled over all the pages that the search showed?

If this is the scenario, this is probably the problem, this search will show you high traffic, recent content... but may not return all the relevant URLs. So you may only be pulling over a subset... and only for a recent time frame... 

You could pull over "Page URL (full) (v8)" into your table, and apply a "contains" filter... but honestly I would use the Segment as I feel it's a cleaner display of the information....

The segment method will look for the contains value in whatever time frame your panel is using, so it should still pull content from last year, or new content once it's published.

[AliceFa1]

Oh, nice. So, I will considerate the result that Segment gave me. But, I have another question: I have other URL that the result don't appear when I put in segment. 

[Jennifer_Dungan]

This might be the result of a hash conflict? Or maybe the page was viewed outside of the reporting window?

It's hard to diagnose without seeing it....

[AliceFa1]

So, I put the link and 
the data part is empty

[Jennifer_Dungan]

Looks like that URL didn't get any hits this month? Or, I can see you are pulling from a VRS, maybe there's something wrong with the definition and this page isn't being included for some reason?

When was that post published?

[AliceFa1]

It can be something wrong in this post. In July 1st. 

I have another question: it is possible to have different results from a the same URL? Why? 

[Jennifer_Dungan]

It shouldn't be... and none of your numbers line up...

You can see that whether I pull based on filtering, or from a segment, my URLs line up exactly:

[AliceFa1]

The numbers are from different dashboards, but they are from the same URL and the same period of time. I made a segment based em parts of que URL of the blog in the part that are the same in all the links. The numbers are from two different segments. 

[Jennifer_Dungan]

Ok, for anyone else who might be struggling in the same way, I met with @AliceFa1 and we figure out the issue.

One segment was using "Full URL" dimension, the other was using "URL without Query Strings"

The problem was that the "Full URL" dimension had instances of the URL which exceeded the "Unique Value Threshold", and this resulted in the neither the report, or the segment to return all instances of the URL. There was traffic under the dreaded "(Low Traffic)" bucket...

Just a note to people, any value which is caught in the low traffic bucket won't actually work with segment logic... 

In this case, using the "no query strings" dimension got around this issue, but this could still be subject to low traffic depending on the size of the site.

[AliceFa1]

Hello. I need to send every month the results of an specific blog. How can I make a dashboard with all the results of the month considering all the pages of the blog?

[Jennifer_Dungan]

I've merged your two posts together, as they are basically the same question asked slightly different ways.

The segment that you created looking at the URL contains, can work... however, IF your site is large, with a lot of different URLs, and if your URL dimension contains campaign parameters, you might exceed the "unique value" threshold... which means using the URL will not be a good solution....

This is where I like to use additional dimensions, to track "lookup" type information... such as:

• dimension "Page Type" - which would track values like "blog", "blog post", "section", "home", etc
• dimension "Blog Alias" - this would only apply to blog pages (blog and blog post), but would hold the "blog-of-interest" value so I can easily identify the different blogs
• dimension "Blog Post" - this would only be for the specific posts, and would hold the post id "123" or "124"... the changes of exceeding 2 million unique values is slim (unless you have a lot of blog posts)

Then, I would pull blog content by created a segment using "Blog Alias", or I might just pull that value over into my table, then break it down by "Blog Post"... there are lots of ways to slice and dice the data.