Earlier today I viewed a Google Analytics Ecommerce report for a client and found a revenue that was about 0.2% less than what I was expecting it to be. Not much, you might think but when the revenue is over $100,000 it's enough to make me curious.
I viewed the revenue report by clicking on Standard Reporting, Conversions, Ecommerce and Overview:
I then selected a source/medium of google / cpc to get the Adwords revenue:
And this was the figure that was slightly less than expected. Further investigation showed that I had inadvertently applied an Advanced Segment of Paid Search Traffic.
The question is, why should this make a difference? What could be coming through as google / cpc that the Paid Search Traffic segment is filtering out? Please leave a comment if you have any ideas about what could be causing this discrepancy.