Name of affected component: Core Reporting API
Issue summary:
When performing a query for events, we see good results, but some very unlikely
results too. Our site has many clients and they have their own subdomain. We
use the same tracking code everywhere because although it's separate
subdomains, it's still all traffic within our own platform. Each subdomain
functions as a promotional site and can have a few pages linked to it. In
addition, many clients link to their subdomain on our site from their own site.
We perform a query that sets both a segment and a filter to only get results
for the client subdomain, and list ga:fullReferrer among the dimensions. What
is disturbing, is that among the referrers we often see pages on the own
website of other clients. Inspecting these pages, they always contain links to
our website but never to the page of the client we are trying to filter and
segment for. It therefor seems that Analytics is returning some unrelated
results.
Expected output:
Only results that have a referrer that is likely to actually refer to the
clients page. Or at least less of these unlikely results, because right now
they are a rather large part of the result set.
Actual results:
Some results I'd totally expect, but also some that have a very unexpected
unlikely referrer.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by i...@jasperkennis.nl on 14 Dec 2015 at 4:05
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
i...@jasperkennis.nlon 14 Dec 2015 at 4:05