Usage of segment container

[Aravinth_Araj]

Why Hits and Visitor number gets higher , while creating page name based segment using Visits container

[Rajeshwari]

Yes, that will happen. as it will include all the pages visited/viewed or clicked in a visit along with pagename which you are looking or segmenting to.

For e.g - look at below report and assume you want to segment for pageName AC or you want to data for PageName AC - check the below calculation how adobe does based on the container applied - 

Please refer https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/analytics/components/segmentation/seg-overview.html?lang=en to understand more.

Hope this will help,

[Krishna_Musku]

You can find info on Visitor, Visit, and Hit in this article:

https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-analytics-blogs/what-s-the-difference-between...

[MandyGeorge · Accepted solution]

The general logic of how segments work is "if it meets the specified criteria, return all of the information at the segment level."

So, if you have a condition in your segment that is a page name, and your segment is at a visit level. It will look for a hit where that page exists, when it finds it, it will return information for every action in the visit where that page was seen. 

If it was a visitor segment, it would return the information for every action from the visitor who saw the page.

If you want to return only the hits where that specific page was seen (so only stuff that happened on that page), then your overall segment needs to be at a hit level.