Analytics advanced segment filter is showing home page results

Question

Using a simple filter, Page contains /test but the results displayed include /, /blog, /photos pages.

Any idea why this would be happening on such a simple segment?

Answer 1

First of all, just to avoid confusion, I'd recommend not naming advanced segments as filters, as theese are completely different things. You have advanced segmentation and advanced filtering on profiles.

When using an advanced segment to segment sessions to a specific page, theese sessions will include the WHOLE session. So, if a session (or visit, it is the same thing) would navigate /, /blog and /photos and you'd create a segment to only contain /blog, you'd still see pageviews for /, /blog and /photos. That is because the session matches your segment, so the WHOLE session will be included.

What you want to do is to create an include only filter (not a segment) which includes only visits to /test. This way, only the pageview of a particular session will be saved and not the whole session.