Comments on: Google Analytics Scope: You Don’t Want to Ignore It!

By: Paul Koks

Paul Koks — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:00:56 +0000

In reply to maria.

Hi Maria,

Thank you for the heads up!
Unfortunately, I don’t have such a list, but you might want to take a look here:
https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/dimensions-metrics-explorer/

It will help you determine which metrics and dimensions go together.

Best,
Paul

By: maria

maria — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 05:22:47 +0000

hi Paul, great article. Do you also have each scope’s dimensions and metrics full list to share?

By: Paul Koks

Paul Koks — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 12:10:10 +0000

In reply to Doug. Thank you Doug, I appreciate the heads up!

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 12:03:58 +0000

Great stuff, Paul. I really appreciate your regular insights and updates. You make us all a little better at what we do!

By: Paul Koks

Paul Koks — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:56:46 +0000

In reply to Aleksa Bozicic.

Hi Aleksa,

You’re right! As long as you interpret the data here correctly, you are good to go.

To avoid confusion, I have removed #2 for now and might come up with another example.

Thanks again,
Paul

By: Aleksa Bozicic

Aleksa Bozicic — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:29:18 +0000

There is actually nothing wrong with #2 (page and users), every page view hit is tagged with client id. Now if you imagine a table that contains all page view hits you would get something like this:

PAGE Client ID
page 1 123
page 2 213
page 1 213
page 3 123

It is clear that this data can be aggregated by counting unique client ids per page, giving you page and users report you talked about:

PAGE USERS
page 1 2
page 2 1
page 3 1

We cannot sum users, because we would get 4 users when in fact we got only 2 unique users, that’s because the same user can visit multiple pages of our website. If we keep this in mind I do not think there is anything wrong users per page report.

Otherwise, really nice and helpful article.