I want a segment consisting of visits that are ten pageviews or longer.I
have created two different versions of the segment and their results
wildly disagree. Can anybody explain why?Method 1: Visit segment where
Visit Depth is > 10Method 2: Visit segment where Hit Depth is > 10Method
2 has about twice as many visits and visitors, 15% more page views, and
about a 25% shorter visit time than Method 1.I am pretty sure Method 1
is the right one to use, but then what is Method 2 actually including?
My tracking code is
cmp=__.Note
that an underscore _ separates those three parts of the tracking code.
Each characteristic (1, 2, and 3) can have many different values. For
example, characteristic-1 might be the publisher, characteristic-2 might
be the banner size, and characteristic-3 might be the banner's
message.For example, it could be cmp=hgtv_200x140_bigsaleI want to keep
cmp as a long string for the tracking code report, but I also want three
new evars - one for characteristic-1, another ...
I have a lot of custom segments and some need to have fairly long names,
and I need to see the whole name to know which one to use. In the "Show
Segments" bar, only about 25 characters of the name are displayed.
Clicking on the "i" icon shows only about 38 characters. To see the
whole name I either have to edit the segment, or apply the segment to
the report.My suggestion is to change the popup "i" window to be
expandable enough to show the entire segment name.
It is working fine this morning. I do have a screen shot and an export
showing the absence of the visits metric (or, any metric) but at this
point I'm satisfied. Don't know what happened ... I am not crazy, I know
that. Thanks.
In the Device Type report, "other" is always the top Type in the Ranked
view. But when changing to the Trended View, "other" isn't shown in the
report at all. I haven't been able to force it to show using a Data
Filter or anything else. If I use an Advanced Filter for "other" the
graph line looks right but there is no metric shown in the table. The
"Add Metrics" window says that "visits" *should* be displaying, but
there's no metric column at all.I've been manually copying from the bar
graph in ...
I don't consider this answer to be "solving" or even answering the
question. Maybe gilliganondata should have asked "when are you going to
update your lookups so that we don't see these any more?"
Brian, I think you're mostly right. It does happen (the segment falls
off) when I navigate using Favorites, Recently Viewed, etc. However, it
also happens when using View All Reports to get to a dashboard.
Individual reports in View All Reports keep the segment, but not
dashboards.
This is a basic question, I think.As I open up different reports, both
the selected date range and the applied custom segment keep shifting
away from what I had selected. Usually, the segment disappears and I
have to re-select it. The date ranges change unpredictably - sometimes
switching to a months-long period, sometimes reverting to a month when I
had been looking at an individual week, sometimes switching to a
peculiar non-calendar week set of 7 days.I'm sure there's a method to
the madness ...
Also, one of our sites is double-tagged with both Google Analytics and
SiteCatalyst tracking. The campaign I'm working on now puts four
tracking parameters in the landing page: one that SiteCatalyst
recognizes and three that Google Analytics recognizes. Google Analytics
shows 40% more visits for the campaign than SiteCatalyst does. So weird.
Good idea, but that checked out okay.Still troubled by the 3x
discrepancy. The client's (and the advertising team's) trust level is
not good these days.
Although contacting support is a good idea, I am hoping that people who
have dealt with this before can offer some insights here in the forum.We
are finding that we are seeing only a third as many site visits as
"clicks" reported by Bing Paid Search for example. That difference seems
extraordinary.Perhaps there have been papers or previous answers to
this?
I just now added and removed a segment to one of my dashboards a couple
of times. I ended up going through three views of the non-segmented
dashboard and two views with the segment applied. Of the five panels in
the dashboard, all 5 were different from each other for the two
segmented views - (6K in one segmented view, 255K in the other segmented
view for example, for just one of the panels). For the views of the
dashboard without any segments applied, three of the five dashboard
panels showed t...
"None" may refer to internal network IP addresses a.k.a. private network
addresses.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_networkIf people are
accessing an internal version of the site through the organization's
internal network (which I think might include VPN), the IP addresses can
look like those in the Wikipedia article. Because people's computers in
many organizations can therefore all have the IP address 10.10.123.456,
it can't be resolved to an organization or geo area and will appear as
so...
I have to agree with clee510 that this would be a valuable thing to
have. "average clicks to page" is useless. It's the first "discovery" of
a page that matters for business purposes.I've seen an obscure reporting
package that was able to identify the first instance of a page in a
visit. The valuable metrics were "how many clicks to their first view of
the page" and "where did they go from that page, the first time they
encountered it." I hope others can see the value of this.
Maybe I'm losing my mind, but didn't there use to be an uber-report
called "Site Totals" or "Overview" in the Site Metrics section of
reports?It contained a very important (to me) metric that I haven't been
able to replace or replicate: average time per visit.I have tried using
Total Seconds divided by Visits divided by 60 from the Key Metrics
report, but the number I come up with is really different from what I
used to get. For many months, the "Site Totals" report gave me
consistent visit leng...
Hi Ben, I looked at that but am not sure it's what I'm after. To quote
Danielle above: "how many visits did we have where people looked at 2
[different] products?" We'd want a histogram (# visits with only 1
product, # visits with 2 different products, etc). Alternatively, a
variable that can be the basis for a segment (a segment consisting of
sessions where there were 3 or more different products viewed).
I have a lot of custom segments and some need to have fairly long names,
and I need to see the whole name to know which one to use. In the "Show
Segments" bar, only about 25 characters of the name are displayed.
Clicking on the "i" icon shows only about 38 characters. To see the
whole name I either have to edit the segment, or apply the segment to
the report. My suggestion is to change the popup "i" window to be
expandable enough to show the entire segment name.
The distinction between search.yahoo.com and mail.yahoo.com is important
(among many others). I'd like a Referring Subdomains report, similar to
what others tools have.
In certain competitor analytics products, once you set a "compare dates"
range it persists as you move from one report to another, until you turn
it off. MUCH better than having to re-set the comparison in SiteCatalyst
every time you look at a different report.
I've seen other analytics products that show 5 at a time, but you can
click an arrow to have the graph refresh with the next 5 on the list,
and the next ... all the way to the end of the report. It's great for
finding that one page or referrer, in say position 50, that had a crazy
spike on one day that threw off everything else.
