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Advanced segments - Issue in filtering specif URLs format #82

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
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Name of API affected:
Analytics Data Export API

Issue summary:

Background info:
We are trying to migrate out web traffic analysis tool from Unica 
netinsight to Google Analytics.
Our web site is a directory listing all the companies and products of 
comapnies for specific domain (Interior design).
All company URLs have this format "/Company/<ComapnyID-CompanyName>"
Now, to get the list of only company urls, I created advanced segment with 
the rule "Page contains /Company"

Problem is: after applying advanced segment, report shows up other un- 
desired URLs along with Comapany URLs. 

My reasarch: I tried to find the answer for this and got to know that 
advanced segments filters data by sessions. Known options to resolve this 
is use filter on page tilte or create a new profile for this specific kind 
of report. Both of these defintely will not work for me because management 
and business team prefer easy access to all reports in just few clicks in 
same place because they are coming from unica Net insight tool with Net 
insight user experience. 

Steps to reproduce issue:
1. Create new advanced segment with "Contains" rule
2. Apply the segment and view the report.
3. Report will show other urls also which are doesn't fit with your 
"contains" rule.

Expected output:
We expect URL's which fits with my rules mentioned in adv.seg

Actual results:
Report with undesired URLS and with URLs which doesn't fit with rules 
mentioned in adv.seg.

Notes:
If Advanced segments works on the basis of sessions then it is not the 
intended one for my requirements. 
What I am looking for is simple filters which I can save and apply for 
report whenever required. These filters should do filtering as per my rules 
mentioned without using any extra and advanced segments.

Thanks,
Manoj Phadnis

Original issue reported on code.google.com by vsi...@sandowmedia.com on 3 Jun 2010 at 7:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi,

Your question would be better asked in our public forum first.

Advanced Segments operate on session data. So applying it to a hit level, page 
URL, results in all sessions who 
had 1 pageview that included the matched expression. Then when you report on 
pagePaths for these sessions, 
you get all URL across the sessions.

Instead you should use filters to work across all sessions, but only return the 
data related to the specific 
pageviews.

Original comment by nickski1...@gmail.com on 3 Jun 2010 at 5:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
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 10:05