GA-API missing Unique Visitors / does not match Custom Report UI

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Name of API affected:
Analytics Data Export API

Issue summary:
The metrics available in the Custom Reports UI and the GA-API do not match
in terms of valid combinations and the availablity of Unique Visitors

Steps to reproduce issue:
1. Go to Custom Report UI - Add Unique Visitors as a metric and Page as a
dimension
2. Save report- All ok and no errors.
3. Look at API documentation - Unique Visitors does not exist
4. Add ga:visits as a metric and ga:pagePath as dimension
5: Error for invalid combination is thrown

Expected output:
See uniqueVisitors availabe in GA-API

Actual results:
uniqueVisitors is not availabe in GA-API

Notes:
You should release the two items simultaneously to improve developer
support, even if that means delaying some changes to the Custom Report UI.
Please advise when uniqueVisitors will be available.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by freeman...@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2009 at 10:30

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Hi,

ga:visits != visitors. 
Unique visitors has historically been represented by the ga:visitors metric 
docs here: 
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataReferenceDimensionsMetrics
.html#visitors

With Google Analytics Version 4, a new unique visitor metric was added to 
custom reporting to allow for unduplicated visitor results and to allow this 
metrics to be queried with any 
dimension.

Currently the API has not released an updated version of visitors and still 
exposes the original unique visitor metric (duplicated across date ranges and 
has many restrictions).

So everything is working as expected, albiet a bit confusing. In the future, 
feel free to email our public group with issues.

Original comment by nickski1...@gmail.com on 30 Dec 2009 at 9:38

• Changed state: WontFix

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When is uniqueVisitor metric expected to be added to the API? We're patiently 
waiting for this feature and would 
like to vote for it if possible.

Original comment by filipp.p...@gmail.com on 20 Mar 2010 at 8:27

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Any news on this? I'm really looking forward to use this metric in the API

Original comment by bart.joc...@gmail.com on 5 Jan 2011 at 1:37

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Removing an obsolete label that was used when these issues were in the 
gdata-issues project.

Original comment by jrobbins@google.com on 21 Jul 2011 at 10:04

• Removed labels: API-Analytics