In its basic form, Group-by is a mechanism to categorize events for aggregation. Example: we want to count the number of events by country:
For more information on group-by visualization in Event Segmentation charts, please see this article: Event Segmentation - Metrics Module Additional Features
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Pruning
In order to maintain performance at large scale, we set a maximum limit on the number of groups a query result can return. When this limit is exceeded, we keep the top groups and prune the rest from the query result. The top groups are determined by the ordering information below.
If you are doing a single group by in the event segmentation chart, these results may be limited to 100 group by results. If you are doing a double group by, these results may be limited to 500 group by results in which each group by value pair is counted as 1 result.
Group Ordering
The top groups that are surfaced in the Breakdown Table for each Event Segmentation metric are based on the following:
| Metric | Ordering |
| Uniques | Number of Unique Users |
| Totals | Total Number of Events |
| % Active | Number of Unique Users |
| Average | Total Number of Events |
| Frequency | Number of Unique Users |
| Distribution of Property Value | Number of Unique Users |
| Sum of Property Value | Sum of Property Values |
| Average of Property Value | Sum of Property Values |
| Distinct Property Values Per User | Total Number of (User, Property Value) Pairs |
| Formulas: Percentile | Total Number of Events |
| Formulas: Frequency Percentile | Total Number of Events |
| Formulas: Property Count | Number of Unique Properties |
| Formulas: Property Count Average | Total Number of (User, Property) Pairs |
| Formulas: Default | Number of Unique Users |
Note: For formulas, the ordering in the above table will only be used if every metric in the formula uses the same ordering. Otherwise, the default formulas ordering will be used.