: It seems counterintuitive, but does GA count an event fired as a unique visit even if it's triggered from some place other than your website? What may be happening here is the same

@Murray432

It seems counterintuitive, but does GA count an event fired as a unique visit even if it's triggered from some place other than your website?


What may be happening here is the same thing that affects the bounce rate. See Bounce Rate Impact


If so, there any way to trigger an event in the events section without it reporting to the unique visitor count?


Doesn't look like it since the event tracking works with the gif request.


This is because Event Tracking, like page tracking is classified as an interaction request.

For example, suppose you have a page with a video player where the bounce rate is historically high, and you have not implemented Event Tracking for the page. If you subsequently set up Event Tracking for the player, you might notice a decrease in the bounce rate for that page, because Analytics will record user interaction with the player and send that interaction to the server as an additional GIF request.

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