event tracking - portal vs api

[chrissky]

Hi,

I need to get an understanding of events as represented by the portal
vs by the api. Specifically, I would like to understand the "Visits
with Event" and "Events / Visit" fields in the portal, and what
calculations on api values can give equivalent results.

Thanks!

[Nick]

Hi,

Visit with event is a metric we are not currently exposing through the
API. It's calculation is all the visits that had an event. Events/
Visit is calculated metric defined by: Total Events / (Visits with
Event).

Feel free to open a feature request for this one new metric.

Thanks!
-Nick

[chrissky]

Hi Nick,

Is it possible to use a filter to get "visits that had an event"?
I tried with filter = ga:totalEvents > 0 but it didn't change the
results.

Chris

[Nick]

Hey,

So for that you would need an advanced segment.

From a high level, when you make a query to the GA API, dimensions and
metrics for all visits are returned as a table of data. When you add
filter we only remove rows from that generated table of data that fit
the criteria. Advanced Segments allows you to specify a segment of all
the visits to your site, for examples ones with an Event. GA then
calculates dimensions and metrics from these segmented visits and
returns a table.

Currently Advanced Segmentation through the API is an open feature
request.

-Nick

[chrissky]

Hi Nick,

I thought that was the case, given my findings. But figured it
couldn't hurt to ask.

Hey, I just noticed an error in the documentation

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataReferenceDataFeed.html

- says metric type is "either integer or string"
I had checked because I was looking for the full type enumeration

- Chris

[Nick]

Ah, Thanks for pointing that out.

An push with the fix should happen before tomorrow morning.

-Nick

On Nov 24, 6:43 pm, chrissky wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> I thought that was the case, given my findings. But figured it
> couldn't hurt to ask.
>
> Hey, I just noticed an error in the documentation
>

> http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataReferenceDataFe...