tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178327458695518821.post1279518740251792323..comments2023-12-17T17:08:34.931+05:30Comments on Thoughts of DS: How Unique Visitors Are Calculated in Google AnalyticsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17183433356698247034noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178327458695518821.post-39312255994312702732012-05-27T12:36:49.286+05:302012-05-27T12:36:49.286+05:30Manish,
No, the metrics "Absolute Unique Vis...Manish,<br /><br />No, the metrics "Absolute Unique Visitors" and "Unique Visitors" does not mean "first time visitors to the site".<br /><br />Suppose you visit a site daily, since last few months. But, if I will look at the AUV or UV for say this week, you will be counted here (although you are not 1st time visitor withing this period).<br /><br />The difference Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17183433356698247034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178327458695518821.post-32588178358752028742012-05-23T09:36:31.269+05:302012-05-23T09:36:31.269+05:30We can say,' Absolute Unique Visitors' are...We can say,' Absolute Unique Visitors' are first time visitors to the site, whilst 'Unique Visitors' are first time visitors to the site within the selected time-frame. Analytics tracks the activity of a visitor by recording their unique browser ID, which is provided via the _utma cookie. <br /><br />For example, if one user visited a website using two different web browsers, suchManish Yadavnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178327458695518821.post-70856530784660370212012-05-21T16:37:17.745+05:302012-05-21T16:37:17.745+05:30Unique Visitor v/s Absolute Unique Visitor
The me...Unique Visitor v/s Absolute Unique Visitor<br /><br />The metrics themselves actually differ slightly in the way they measure Visitors (how they tabulate the individual cookies). So the numbers won’t match up exactly.<br /><br />In fact, Unique Visitors is actually more accurate than Absolute Unique Visitors. Unique Visitors will usually show a slightly greater number. Since Unique Visitors is Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17183433356698247034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178327458695518821.post-29888959303927339102012-05-21T15:37:08.882+05:302012-05-21T15:37:08.882+05:30Whats the difference between absolute unique visit...Whats the difference between absolute unique visitors and unique visitors ? GA shows both in its reportAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178327458695518821.post-34026674205340642982012-05-21T11:17:28.413+05:302012-05-21T11:17:28.413+05:30Ravi,
Let me elaborate the section "If you q...Ravi,<br /><br />Let me elaborate the section "If you query for Visitors with only time/date dimensions" a little more.<br /><br />Unique Visitors are counted only once no matter how many times they visit the site during the selected reporting period.<br /><br />A Unique Visitor metric is only valid for its given set of dimensions e.g. time, browsers. For example a website may have 100 Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17183433356698247034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178327458695518821.post-16931117724739215892012-05-21T08:49:43.385+05:302012-05-21T08:49:43.385+05:30"Each session has a timestamp of the first hi..."Each session has a timestamp of the first hit in the previous session"<br /><br />-- This one is not much clear sir.. kindly put some light here with example :)Ravi Shekhar Agrawalhttp://facebook.com/ravishekharnoreply@blogger.com