Unique Visitors Metric

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Name of API affected:
Analytics Data Export API

Request summary:
Hey, when is uniqueVisitor metric expected to be added to the API? I can access 
this metric via 
custom reports 'Unique Visitors', but can't see the equivalent in the API. I 
can just see 
'ga::visitors', which can have duplicate visitors I believe.

Use Cases:
Get unique visitors for specific user defined values. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by halsh...@gmail.com on 3 May 2010 at 7:51

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This is impacting some of our applicaions as client expectations now include 
unique visitors which makes this a manual process to prepare these reports.

Original comment by appleana...@gmail.com on 18 Jun 2010 at 11:57

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We would also really appreciate seeing this added to the API so we can use 
something more meaningful for product page conversion calculation.  I've found 
that ga::visitors seems problematic at best, sometimes returning results that 
are obviously inaccurate. It would seem that the presence of this metric in the 
web interface under Custom Reports would mean it shouldn't be too difficult to 
add to the API?

Original comment by stevelan...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2010 at 9:11

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I second this. This is big on our request list.

Original comment by jenssoga...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2010 at 11:00

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1 3rd it!

Original comment by Ariel.as...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2010 at 3:25

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4th it!

Original comment by Henrik.P...@Nethouse.se on 10 Jan 2011 at 12:18

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Seems to be fixed in the last changelog:
http://code.google.com/intl/fr/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/changelog.html

"The calculation of ga:visitors has been changed to return the number of unique 
visitors across the date range and now supports more dimension and metric 
combinations."

Original comment by jeremy.b...@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2011 at 8:23

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This was updated in the 2011-01 release: 
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/changelog.html

Original comment by nickski1...@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2011 at 8:21

• Changed state: Verified

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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

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Changing the issue type to match the organization desired in this project.

Original comment by jrobbins@google.com on 21 Jul 2011 at 10:06

• Added labels: Type-Feature