Different results for the same query

[Stephane Guerin]

Hi,

I got some weird thing going on. I query the API for the segment "Non-paid search traffic" for two different sets of dates and it doesn't give me the sales results.

Here are the queries:

https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga?ids=ga:154407XX&dimensions=ga%3Adate&metrics=ga:visits&segment=gaid::-5&sort=ga%3Adate&max-results=10000&start-date=2011-02-28&end-date=2012-03-30

https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga?ids=ga:154407XX&dimensions=ga%3Adate&metrics=ga:visits&segment=gaid::-5&sort=ga%3Adate&max-results=10000&start-date=2012-03-27&end-date=2012-03-30

And here are the results in JSON:

["20120327", "11"], ["20120328", "0"], ["20120329", "5"], ["20120330", "0"]

["20120327", "293"], ["20120328", "286"], ["20120329", "300"], ["20120330", "212"]

Why I don't get the same results? Any idea?

Thanks,

Stéphane

[Quentin Caron]

Indeed this should not happen. Have tried to make your query simpler? You could try the same query by replacing ga:date by ga:day, ga:month and ga:year just to make sure the behavior is the same.

Are you sure you do not manipulate data at some point or storing them in an existing variable?

Cheers,

Quentin

[Stephane Guerin]

Hi,

Good idea. I tried it and got the same weird results (year, month, day):

First query, last 30 days: ["2012", "04", "02", "480"], ["2012", "04", "03", "355"], ["2012", "04", "04", "267"]

Second query, last 10 days:  ["2012", "04", "02", "429"], ["2012", "04", "03", "349"], ["2012", "04", "04", "266"]

I don't understand. I only have one GA profile that does that. 

First query: hhttps://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga?ids=ga:15440705&dimensions=ga:year,ga:month,ga:day&metrics=ga:visits&segment=gaid::-5&start-date=2012-03-05&end-date=2012-04-04&start-index=1&max-results=10000

Second query: https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga?ids=ga:15440705&dimensions=ga:year,ga:month,ga:day&metrics=ga:visits&segment=gaid::-5&start-date=2012-03-25&end-date=2012-04-04&start-index=1&max-results=10000

Any idea is appreciated.

Thanks,

Stephane

[Nick]

Is your data getting sampled?  ie containsSampledData == true

or what happens through the UI when you create 2 custom reports that exactly match this query?

-Nick

[Stephane Guerin]

Hi,

Yes, I see this in the JSON response:  "containsSampledData":true 

However, I didn't find how to deactivate this? How can we set this to false?

Also, what's the difference between standard report for Organic visits in GA and the "non-paid search traffic" advanced segment? I got 10x more visits in the standard report.

Thanks,

Stéphane

[Stephane Guerin]

Hi Nick,

I got the same weird result with a custom report. See attached. The first report is for 3 months, the second one for 9 months. Numbers are really different. Even the visits number is different (see the hover box in both graph).

The report is for visits metric and date dimension.

Any idea?

Thanks,

Stéphane

On Friday, 6 April 2012 02:43:54 UTC-4, Nick wrote:

[ChainsawDR]

Have you guys had any more joy with this? I'm pulling Visits numbers
using Next Analytics and its differing from what I see in the
interface.

I have various filters applied to my profile so I'm wondering if it
queries on the pre-filtered data rather than the post-filtered data.

Any help would be appreciated.

ChainsawDR