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courtneya745867
courtneya745867
August 15, 2018
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How to make a segment that shows first time a page was seen by a unique visitor

  • August 15, 2018
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Hello,

I am trying to understand the amount of unique visitors who saw a specific page on my site for the first time, not within their 1st visit. How am I able to create a segment that would show me by unique visitor the amount of visitors who saw this page for the first time?

ex: Page A has 20,000 unique visitors, and x amount of those unique visitors visited for the first time.

Thanks,

C

Best answer by Gigazelle

This would require a large lookback window, since the number you're looking for requires the entire history of each visitor to be taken into consideration. In order to calculate if a user saw this page for the first time, we have to know that visitor's entire history (which could go back years).

There might be some hacky workarounds, but I don't think it's feasible to get an accurate measurement of this number currently.

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Gigazelle
Adobe Employee
GigazelleAdobe EmployeeAccepted solution
Adobe Employee
August 21, 2018

This would require a large lookback window, since the number you're looking for requires the entire history of each visitor to be taken into consideration. In order to calculate if a user saw this page for the first time, we have to know that visitor's entire history (which could go back years).

There might be some hacky workarounds, but I don't think it's feasible to get an accurate measurement of this number currently.

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laetizia_w
Level 4
August 23, 2018

But wouldnt Entry Page Original help? Isnt that dimension showing the first Entry Page of an user?

Gigazelle
Adobe Employee
GigazelleAdobe Employee
Adobe Employee
August 23, 2018

If the requirement was to only look at the very first entry page of a user, original entry page would work perfectly!

However, it looks like Courtney wants to look at the the visitor's entire history. The only way I would anticipate this would be possible is by adjusting implementation to the following:

  • Every hit checks for a custom cookie with the page's value
  • If it exists, do nothing
  • If it does not exist, set a cookie value for the current page and fire a custom event (first time views)
  • In reporting, you can trend this custom event over time (all first time views) or by page
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