URLs for Pages in GADWP

Hi,

It was requested before, and this functionality was actually available at some point. It was removed for two reasons:

1. False positives generated by the antivirus software.

2. Users concerned of their website’s security.

All these because spammers tend to exploit this functionality using fake pageviews (with fake page paths, fake referrers and so on). For details see Tips to improve Google Analytics data accuracy.

Even if there are solutions to avoid these, users tend to blame it on the plugin instead of looking for the real culprit and the right fix. In addition, having the access to your dashboard blocked because of a false positive or an warning from your antivirus is not a good UX at all.

I understand what you’re saying, but certainly there could be a couple “easy” solutions to this.

1. URL’s that aren’t clickable.

2. Simply showing the last segment of the URL such as:

old-stone-review

Instead of:

https://slashcomment.com/movie-reviews/old-stone-review/

That would still get us the information needed to avoid the extra step to Google which would get everyone into the same issues you mentioned in your post.

We could use a title attribute on a span, something like this:

accepted
Here’s the simple, built-in way:

<span title="/something/a-test-page">A test page</span>

Replacing the page title with the URI is out of question, because on the other side those used with a page title in that report will start complaining, as you can imagine.

Would this implementation help you?

• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Alin Marcu.

Title attribute seems very much on the right path.

ANYTHING that would let us get the info without having to jump fully over to GA would be a GREAT help. If my HTML memory is correct, wouldn’t this sort of potentially also function as a tooltip on a mouseover? That would be tremendous.

Thanks SO much for listening. Even if nothing comes of it, I greatly appreciate the time.

Hi, I’ve tried to implement the above feature on v5.0 but the problem is that the report becomes very segmented.

By default GA doesn’t strip any queries, so all pages like '/', '/?subscribe', '/?search=xyz', '/?search=zzz' are regarded as pages with different paths making this feature unusable for the majority of users.

Any other suggestions are welcome.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by Alin Marcu.

What about a simple tool-tip on hover?

And thanks for the effort!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by Agrajag27.

As per example above, let’s say we have a page called Home with the following URIs and data:

‘/’ – 2 pageviews
‘/?subscribe’ – 3 pageviews
‘/?search=xyz’ – 1 pageview
‘/?search=zzz’ – 2 pageviews

The report will look like this:

Home – 2 pageviews
Home – 3 pageviews
Home – 1 pageview
Home – 2 pageviews

Which, beside the bad UX, will also raise lots of questions from users thinking that something is wrong and a page is reported multiple times.

Every time you use a secondary dimensions you’re actually fragmenting the data further with side effects like the above.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by Alin Marcu.

Perhaps I’m simply doing a terrible job explaining this. Here’s a textual example from my current GA DASHBOARD as provided by you:

Yesterday v Pages v

(graphical tree area for Channels, Organic/Direct/Referral

___________ Pages _____________|__ Sessions __
The Fate of the Furious Review | #####
The Lost City of Z Review
The Promise Review
The Fate of the Furious Review
Their Finest Reviews

That’s just a quick example of how it “looks” today (I didn’t finish it due to spacing and such that would throw it all off).

All I’m looking for is the ability to somehow see who wrote the first review of “The Fate of the Furious” and who wrote the second one to know which one is doing what numbers.

So, if the entries could simply provide a mouse-over URL or help text of the URL I can then quickly find out who wrote that one without going to Google. Better would be the ability to click the link, but you’ve already noted that this would be problematic.

An option that would work great for me, but would not likely help others would be to show me who those authors are as an option (mouse-over the first one and help text says “Author: Rich Heimlich”, etc.)

In our example I never see pages like those you describe in your example.

Does that help explain it better? I can also chat via Skype if it would help.