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MichaelF
MichaelF

Reputation: 487

Is it possible to combine different URLs that appear in Google Analytics?

We have some URLs in our site that are recorded by GA differently, I believe this is mostly due to browser type. The issue is due to some URLs coming from an area of our site, that we cannot change at this point without significant effort, which contain spaces. With the way different browsers handle the spaces we can get the various formats recorded as separate items:

I thought it might be useful to use a regular expression and try to simplify these.

Has anyone had a similar issue, and have you a resolved this? Ideally I'd like to track all URLs like above as one URL and right now it shows up in my reports as multiple URLs, which skews some of the tracking we have to do, or creates extra work in being able to combine the URLs that are alike.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 953

Answers (1)

Jan Kleinert
Jan Kleinert

Reputation: 1809

To do this, you could create a new profile and then create and apply some search and replace filters to handle re-writing the URLs.

In the example you have above, you could have your search string be:

\/my(\s|\+|%20)site(\s|\+|%20)area\/pages\/default\.html

And then your replace string could then be whatever format you choose, like this for example:

\/my site area\/pages\/default\.html

That would map any of the three formats to "/my site area/pages/default.html"

Upvotes: 2

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