What is the different between filter and segment?
 

What is the different between filter and segment?

I was wondering why there's a difference when I use the advanced segment and filter advanced page on page.

For example, on my advanced segment:
page= doent match a regular expression = ^/$
Results=many pages with 3,675 pageviews total

and on my advanced filter on page:
Filter page=exclude =^/$
results=many pages, with pageviews:55,393 total

why this situation?
there's something wrong on my test??the data should not be the same??
thanks a lot

Filters can create some serious on-page issues for technical SEO, but are ... you remedy a situation, but only if your filters have a defined path.

A segment that includes “google/organic” but excludes brand landing pages. This allows you to compare overall trends for both brand and non-brand organic keywords.

No idea,but thanks for sharing the question and information on it.

Segment – For a segment, every visit is checked to see if it satisfies the conditions of the segment. For sessions that satisfy the condition, all rows are returned. For sessions that do not, no rows are returned.

Filter – For a filter all the rows for ALL visits are considered, then only the rows that satisfy the conditions of the filter will be returned.

Segment – For a segment, every visit is checked to see if it satisfies the conditions of the segment. For sessions that satisfy the condition, all rows are returned. For sessions that do not, no rows are returned.

Filter – For a filter all the rows for ALL visits are considered, then only the rows that satisfy the conditions of the filter will be returned.

Filters and Segments are both great tools that allow you to look at your data in a deeper way and gain more actionable insights about the people visiting your site.

You want to use a segment if you are selecting entire visits and you want to use a filter if you are looking at specific events, pageviews etc. for all visits.

For filters, when you make an API request you get back entries of data
which represent rows in a table. Adding a filter simply includes or
excludes rows of that final table.
Segments operate at a lower level. Currently Google Analytics collects
a stream of "hits" (pageviews/events/etc) which are associated with a
session. Each dimension and metric Google Analytics exposes can be
represented as a function where the parameter is all the sessions in
the selected date range.