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adrenalin
adrenalin

Reputation: 135

Google Analytics custom report shows zero pageviews

I've created a custom report with dimensions: 

Event Category, Event Label, Page Title

And want to see this metrics:

Total Events
Pageviews
Avg. Time on Page

Also, I applied a filter by event category.

I see my report with some values in Total Events column, but Pageviews and Avg. Time on Page are always zero. What is the problem?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3380

Answers (2)

Gyurka
Gyurka

Reputation: 46

I had the same problem and as sdhaus says you'd need to merge two reports. I didn't want to include even more vendors but I found nowadays Looker Studio does exactly that: you can just merge the Analytics data source with another instance of itself and voila: match on page title or path and you're done!

Upvotes: 0

sdhaus
sdhaus

Reputation: 1896

Your problem is occuring due to the custom report you have generated.

Events by definition are not page views. This means that an Event dimension (category, action, label) cant have page view metrics such as pageviews or average time on page, because that information does not relate to the specific event.

One way to product the report you might want is to create a segment for sessions which contain the event you are interested in, then create a Custom Report with the dimension pages, total event, pageviews, and time on page.

Update:

Understanding what you are trying to achieve, you will need to do two reports, and merge them on pagePath (assuming there is only one video per page).

Report 1: Event Category, Event Label, Page Path, Total Events.

Event Category  Event Label  Page Path  Total Events
Video           Id1          /video1     2
Video           Id2          /video2     3

Report 2: Page Path, Page Views, Time on Page

Report two requires a segment: Sessions that contain Event Category == VideoView (assumed category).

Page Path, Page View, Average Time on Page.

Page Path    Page views   Average Time on page
/video1      5            0:42
/video1      10           0:16

The final merged dataset would look like

Event Category  Event Label  Page Path  Total Events  Page views  Average Time on page
Video           Id1          /video1     2            5           0:42
Video           Id2          /video2     3            10          0:16

Upvotes: 3

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