How many sessions are with specific event triggered multiple times?

Question

I have an event action: event_a that users can trigger by interacting with the page.

How can I find out how many sessions were in which users triggered the event_a more than once?

I tried setting up a custom segment:

• Sessions include:
  • Event Action: contains event_a
  • Total Events > 1

But I get all sessions that event was triggered.

I also tried going to the Top Events report, and try to filter on the same conditions as above, getting the same result.

Answer 1

The Top Events reports has the number you are looking for. It is called "Unique Events".

From the context sensitive help:

• Total Events - Total Events is the number of times events occurred.
• Unique Events - The number of times during a date range that a session contained the specific dimension or combination of dimensions.

So the "total" is the number of times that event occurred and the "unique" is the number of sessions for which it occurred. The difference between the two is the number of events that were triggered in the same session.