What do clients with behaviour in April do in other months?

[Joseph_Making]

Hey  

Scenario is as follows: I can identify pretty easily with a segment clients that had 2 purchases in a given month. We have millions of such clients, so I cant save any ids individually in a segment. I want to see what their interaction with us was in other months. If they had 2 purchases in April, were they browsing in march? did they have campaign interaction is Feb? etc.  

If I try to force a UV level segment with 2 hits split by "then" and each hit has the purchase event and the purple april date from the sidebar, then all hits filtered by that segment is always for the month of april even if I change the panel date range. 

Any way to make a segment that always checks the client had 2 purchases in march, that would let me see their behaviour in other months? 

[Jennifer_Dungan · Accepted solution]

Sadly, you used to be able to add a date range into a segment without it overriding the panel range... but changes to the logic now mean that any date added inside the segment overrides the panel.

What you could try is using the Month dimension to look for users in "Apr 2025":

Then set your panel date range to how far back you want to look (and include April 2025)

Then either pull in only the months you are interested in (as dimensions):

Or, create a hit segment for the months you are interested in:

And applying it with a breakdown of your choice:

So the Visitor level segment will pull back visitors who came to your site in April 2025, and your Hit segment will look for hits within the specified months (outside of April)

But unfortunately, this type of report won't roll..  it would need to be curated each month..... 

[Joseph_Making]

Awesome, thanks  

[Jennifer_Dungan]

You're very welcome.