Total Sessions against visitorLoginState discrepancy

  • Hi Tomi,

    This is probably more a GA understanding question then technical. I was hoping you could help me understand this.

    I’m having discrepancies with the total number of sessions and the total number between logged-in and logged-out sessions.

    From what I understand a Session is a visit where the user interacts with the website in a certain period of time, a user can have multiple sessions in that period. So for example:

    User A = 1;
    User A Login State = logged-in;
    User A = 3 sessions in one day;
    Total Sessions = 3;

    Custom Dimension: Login State = logged-in ——> Metric: Sessions = 3

    So the total number of logged-in sessions should be equal to the total number of sessions, right?

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    I’ve set up the visitorLoginState custom dimension with scope “User” first, then I changed it to scope “Session” because I thought that would have something to do but it hasn’t have any difference.

    Thanks for your time!
    Sergio

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  • Plugin Author Thomas Geiger

    (@duracelltomi)

    Hi Sergio,

    First of all: if you change the scope of a custom dimension, that does not change how historic data is being reported. Since you set this custom dimension to user scope, that can answer why you see fewer sessions.

    Also make sure that this custom dimension is being set in each session thus it could not happen that a new session does not include data for the logged in status.

    Cheers,
    Thomas

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