Querying for additional page path levels reduces total number of page reviews in spreadsheet reports

[lu...@tradegecko.com]

The metric used is ga:pageviews. These are the 2 different cases of the same report. They both return different results. In case 2, many entries are omitted and the total number of rows returned is only 1862. But in case 1, it returns 11,227 rows and about 80,000 pageviews. It seems that adding additional pagepathlevel's causes some results to be cut off.

I don't understand why? Could someone help please?

Case 1 dimensions:

ga:date
ga:pagetitle
ga:pagepath
ga:pagepathlevel1
ga:pagepathlevel2

Case 2 dimensions:

ga:date
ga:pagetitle
ga:pagepath
ga:pagepathlevel1
ga:pagepathlevel2

ga:pagepathlevel3

ga:pagepathlevel4

Thank you!

[Mike Sullivan]

pagePathLevel# dimensions do not have an empty or (not set) equivalent, so if you include pagePathLeve3 and there is no 3rd level in the path, the page view is not included in the report -- there is no row with an empty value to hold the numbers.

[lu...@tradegecko.com]

Got it! Thanks Mike!