The ‘Category’ dimension reports the product category of the hit. It is useful for implementations that use the products
variable and want to see metrics around product category, such as top sellers or most viewed. This dimension can intentionally be blank if you don’t have any products on your site.
This dimension references the first part of the string in the products
variable. Everything before the first semicolon (;
) populates this dimension.
Since this variable is based on a custom string in your implementation, your organization determines what the dimension items are. Adobe recommends that you group individual products into meaningful categories, using both the ‘Product’ and ‘Category’ dimensions.
In previous versions of Adobe Analytics, some limitations to the ‘Category’ dimension were imposed due to its processing architecture. Those limitations have since been removed, allowing you to use any metric and any breakdown.