What is the difference between unique visitors and absolute unique visitors in Google Analytics? That is a good question. This is really a very good question. I have seen many people answering in a very confusing way. Here is a very good explanation about your thread.
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nicely explained using the following example
Quote: Example
Date range: May 1-31
User A visits www.domain.com for the 1st time on May 5th and then returns to the website on 12th and 17th of May.
User B visits www.domain.com on April 8th and then again on May 5th and 12th.
Results:
In Absolute Unique Visitors: User A will be counted as a First Time (New) Unique Visitor on May 5th, and User B will be counted as Prior (Returning) Unique Visitor. User A and User B will not be counted as a Unique Visitor (either first time or prior) for any subsequent visits (May 12 and 17th).
In New vs. Returning: The visit on May 5th from User A gets counted as a visit from a "New" visitor. Subsequent visits from User A (May 12 and 17th) get counted as visits from a "returning" visitor. All of User B's visits are counted as visits from a returning visitor. this one comes from GA glossary:
Quote: Unique Visitors represents the number of unduplicated (counted only once) visitors to your website over the course of a specified time period. A Unique Visitor is determined using cookies. hope it helps.. Quote: Originally Posted by bogs this one comes from GA glossary:
hope it helps.. After how much time returning visitor is declared as unique visitor.
http://www.google.com/support/analyt...&answer=113734 Thank You. thanks for the link webservices1
nicely explained using the following example
Quote: Example
Date range: May 1-31
User A visits www.domain.com for the 1st time on May 5th and then returns to the website on 12th and 17th of May.
User B visits www.domain.com on April 8th and then again on May 5th and 12th.
Results:
In Absolute Unique Visitors: User A will be counted as a First Time (New) Unique Visitor on May 5th, and User B will be counted as Prior (Returning) Unique Visitor. User A and User B will not be counted as a Unique Visitor (either first time or prior) for any subsequent visits (May 12 and 17th).
In New vs. Returning: The visit on May 5th from User A gets counted as a visit from a "New" visitor. Subsequent visits from User A (May 12 and 17th) get counted as visits from a "returning" visitor. All of User B's visits are counted as visits from a returning visitor. this one comes from GA glossary:
Quote: Unique Visitors represents the number of unduplicated (counted only once) visitors to your website over the course of a specified time period. A Unique Visitor is determined using cookies. hope it helps.. Quote: Originally Posted by bogs this one comes from GA glossary:
hope it helps.. After how much time returning visitor is declared as unique visitor.