Hi,
We've just put a site live and have an issue with Google Analytics where Pages which have children are recorded in a strange way (to me at least).
eg
/about (the About homepage)
/about/ (the pages within the About section)
Ideally the About homepage would be recorded as
/about/index
or similar so that all pages in that section could be reported on as a group.
Is there a simple way to achieve this?
Thanks,
Graham
if you filter your page stats by /about you will get /about as well as /about/*
If you filter by /about/ you will get all sub pages of about but not the index.
I'm not really sure what your problem is.
Hi JP,
Thanks for your reply. I don’t have a problem as such. I don’t like the inconsistency I suppose between sites and groups of pages.
Suppose we have a site with a URL of “/research”. This will have a designated index page so that the homepage of the site might be recorded as
/research/home
Sibling pages in the /research site will have URLs of
/research/themes
/research/people
etc
However, if one of those pages has some children, although they will be recorded under that page
eg
/research/themes/biochemistry
the themes page itself (now an index page for that group of pages) is not recorded as
/research/themes/index
This leads to inconsistency within GA because some parts of our website will have index pages and some won’t. To the GA user there is no rhyme or reason to this because Squiz Matrix sites can have any URL and therefore home pages can appear at any level.
Does that make more sense? I know it’s a minor point but our website is enormous so little things like this are good to iron out.
G