I'm trying to get the pageview number for the a particular page,
but I see two page view entry
I have:
/page ==> 100 page view
/page/ ==> 50 page view
The two pages are exactly the same page, but why does it have two entries?
Is the GA double counting, so instead of 150 views, I actually only get 100 view?
How do I combine the two entries?
Thank you
You can use a filter to the Google Analytics View to join then.
Go to the Admin section > View column > Filters.
Add Filter > Name it the way you want > Custom > Check "Advanced" option.
Select the field Request URI, in field A put the value "^(/.*)/$".
In field B put "-".
In the Output "$A1", just like the image below.
Hope I've helped you.
Regards,
Vítor Capretz
Good idea for your SEO and Google Analytics is to set-up redirects from page to page/ (or vice versa). I.e. you need to set-up rule for canonical urls: either with slash, or without slash. And stick with the rule.
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I've been searching the web, but can't find a solution. Who can help me?
Situation:
I have a website selling tours with on some pages embedded calendars which all show up as separate pages in Behaviour Report (All Pages).
URI /embeds/calendar/blablabla
I also have book buttons which load embedded pages which I do want to track. Those URI's start with /embeds/book/ and in many of those URI's there's also the word calendar.
So I would like to filter out the pages that match exactly /embeds/calendar/ but I can't figure out how to do that preferably applying it as a filter to the view or otherwise as a segment.*
In the report itself, I figured out an advanced filter that works:
Exclude > Page > Matching RegExp > /embeds/calendar/
*Edit: applying it as a filter to the view or to add this as a segment.
I don't understand the question considering that it contains part of the answer. If you want those pages change the filter from exclude to include.
You can create a segment with user or session level who visited those page path, not those pages alone. For this you have the filter as you have already used.
If you do not want this data to be collected in the view you must enter a filter in the view settings, i.e. Prdefinited Exclude --> traffic to the subdirectories --> Select expression --> ... or Custom Exclude --> Request URI --> .... This change will only apply to today's and future data.
I'm looking for some help creating a Google Analytics report that shows, in a timeline, the number of Users who visited one page (e.g. Checkout page) but NOT another page (e.g. Thank You page), and in that order. This seems like such a simply report to run, but I cannot seem to find the right settings in Google Analytics to pull this together.
What you need is a segment with the following settings:
Include sessions
Page includes /checkout (replace with your checkout URL) AND
Page excludes /thankyou (replace with whatever your thank you page URL is)
I am trying to create a new custom report in Google Analytics for two pages. I do not need the entire site's traffic data. Just traffic received on two pages. The metrics I am trying to track are Page views, Unique Pageviews, Time on Site and Bounce Rate for those two pages.
Here's what I have done so far:
Went to Customization tab, clicked on New Report.
Added Page views, Unique pageviews, Bounce rate and Avg. time on site under Metric groups.
Dimension Drilldowns for Page (is this right?)
In Filters, I have added an Include > Page > Exact > URL of 1st page.
When I try adding another filter for second page like point 4, I see 0s when the report is generated. Have also tried adding the second page URL separated by the '|'. But, it still does not work. What am I doing wrong here? Thank you for your help!
In Filters, I have added an Include > Page > Exact > URL of 1st page.
...
Have also tried adding the second page URL separated by the '|'. But, it still does not work.
For this to work, try switching to: Include > Page > RegEx > URL1|URL2
I don't understand this. How can this happen?
I have an educational site and when I looked at Google Analytics I saw a porn page in active page which doesn't exist on my site.
What is this and how can I stop this from happening?
I checked for that page on my website and there is no such page.
This is not actually a hit for a Page on your website, it is rather a Referral (i.e. the source from which a user was supposedly coming from before landing on your site): https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2795830?hl=en
It is actually spam generated by bots and crawlers, and you can follow the steps listed in this article to mitigate this issue: http://moz.com/blog/how-to-stop-spam-bots-from-ruining-your-analytics-referral-data
For the most common sources of Referral Spam, you might want to add an Exclude Filter to simply ignore those hits:
To filter out a referring source from your reports, create the following filter:
Filter Type: Custom Filter > Exclude
Filter Field: Campaign Source
Filter Pattern: Enter the domain of the referring source that you would like to exclude, for example, google.com. You can use regular expressions if you would like to exclude several referring sources.
If you are wondering about the "Active Page" view listing a spammy-looking URL, it is because that page most likely is a 404 page your website serves in response to the request.
Note that the URL also begins with a slash delimiter ("/"), as in yourwebsite.com/www.spammy-site.com -- this will show up in Analytics as /www.spammy-site.com, as in the examples above.
This is Ghost Referrer Spam, and it shows as both pages and/or referrals(you can see it in the screenshot bellow). This "visits" never reach your website actually. The only thing you should worry about is your data since it affects your statistics by adding useless data to your Google Analytics.
The only way to stop them for now is by filtering them in Google Analytics as #Philippe mention you can add a single filter or you can use a more general approach with a filter based on Valid Hostnames that will stop this and most of the Referrer Spam.
Basically, this works by excluding all hits that don't have any of your valid hostnames since the spammers don't know who are they targeting they use a fake or empty hostname as you can see in the screenshots
Here is more information about this solution and others https://stackoverflow.com/a/28354319/3197362
1 In Google Analytics, go to the Admin tab.
2 Go to View Column and select Filters.
3 Click on New Filter.
4 Put Spam Porn Referrals as a name for the Filter.
5 Filter Type select Custom. Filter Field, find and select Campaign
Source. In the Filter Pattern text box, copy and paste this Regular
Expression.
depositfiles-porn.ga|youporn-forum.ga|pornhub-forum.ga|generalporn.org|rapidgator-porn.ga|meendo-free-traffic.ga|amanda-porn.ga|torture.ml|pornhub-forum.uni.me
6 Click Save.
You can check this link also. I have seen the same problem and now i am done with this.
Stop Spam or adult site referrals in google analytics
We've accidentally placed the same Google Analytics tracking code on two different domains.
www.y.com
www.x.com
We've rectified the issue now but retrospectively, is there any way to filter that data going to the specific domain name www.x.com for example?
Note: this is not a duplicate of Google Analytics: Track two domains as one
You could add a filter to the view (profile) in question. That will remove the data that you don't want. Another option if you don't want to loose the data in the view would be to create a custom segment that you could use when ever you want to split the data out.
Update from Google+
You can search with regex
^/app/
in the small search bar (custom segment) in your page reports (e.g. Behavior -> Site Content -> All Pages), after which you can look at the aggregate metrics for all pages which start with /app/ (i.e. all the pages with different parameters).
If all the /app/.* have the same page title, you can look at the Behavior > Overview report, but choose Page Title as the dimension.