I vaguely remember our discussion :) If I remember correctly you’re using Advanced Custom segments. These are visit level segments and therefore include all of the data from a visitor’s visit. So if they traverse different sections of the site you’ll see data from all of those sections.

If you need to really segment, and only see what happens in the separate sections I would recommend a new feature called Custom Variables today. It was just announced today, so there’s not much documentation, but this seems like a logical way to go.

Thanks for the comment,

Justin

I recently attended your seminar in NYC and you suggested using segments as a way to view combined statistics for separate-but-related content areas of our site. (Our site includes sections for two hospitals — I’d like to see combined statistics for “maternity” content at both hospitals, for example.)

However, when I view the report for my segment, it’s including top-level pages (such as the homepage) that shouldn’t be there based on my segment criteria. Do you know what might be causing this? Not sure if this is enough info for you to provide an answer, sorry…

If you set the logic this way, it works:

Hour of the day: (Condition) Greater than or equal to > (Value) 18:00

AND

Hour of the day: (Condition) Less than > (Value) 19:00

Than it works…

Great question, and I’m not 100% sure. My guess is that, because advanced segmentation is visit level segmentation, it’s taking all visits that started before the selected time and then persisted into the selected time.

Really interesting question,

Thanks,

Justin

There is one thing im not clear about with this advanced segmentation thing…

We run an internet radio station,
and we wanted to segment out top strip (18:00) so we can tell how many returning users do we get on it over time.

So i figured to segment Hour of the day with Exact match and the Value 18:00, and than check the trend for returning visitors.

So far so good.

But when i do this segmentation and go to the visits report, and than view it by hour i see weird stuff.
The line shows Visits BEFORE and include 18:00 but nothing after. Wasn’t i supposed to see only 18:00 visits???

Try using “Count of Visits” dimension along with a medium specific to the type of keywords you want to see (organic vs paid). I think that this will show you which keywords were responsible for the Xth visit by the visitor.

Pablo,

Unfortunately segments are tied to your Google Account. So if you have access to multiple accounts then ALL of your segments will be visible in all of your GA accounts.

Thanks for the comments and I hope that helps!

Justin