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monty
monty

Reputation: 3

Google Analytics Create segment without sub domains

My company's analytics is installed on a site with many subdomains and I do not have access to create a filtered property, so I am trying to make a segment for the main site only.

I have tried a segment where: Page starts with mydomain.com but it also still gets all the subdomains. There are a lot of subdomains because there are unique ones created for each client, so it is hard to list them all as exclusions.

How do I create a regex or filter to exclude all but the main domain and its pages?

YES:  mydomain.com
YES:  mydomain.com/*
NO:   clientA.mydomain.com
NO:   clientB.mydomain.com
NO:   clientC.mydomain.com
NO:   clientD.mydomain.com
NO:   clientE.mydomain.com
NO:   clientF.mydomain.com
NO:   app.mydomain.com
NO:   wip.mydomain.com

Upvotes: 0

Views: 128

Answers (1)

XTOTHEL
XTOTHEL

Reputation: 5198

This behaviour you are getting from the segment functionality is as expected. I think you are just misunderstood what it is for.

The functionality is filtering based on sessions. In your case when you use segments, it is actually "show me all the pages people have visisted where they've visited at least a page that started with mydomain.com.

It'll be very difficult for you to filter session level data and exclude all subdomain pages.

If You want a report to include only page-level data, then use the Behaviour > content and use the "begins with" filter there.

Upvotes: 0

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