Comments on: Google Analytics Configuration Mistake #1: Missing Default Page

By: ben

ben — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:26:41 +0000

Hi Justin

That’s been killing me. Thanks for solving at least half of my problem with Google Analytics, which otherwise is just great.

Ben

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:22:06 +0000

Hi Jeff,

The solution for mixed case URLs is to use a lowercase filter on the profile. You can read more about this solution in my post on Makeing GA data quality suck less.

Thanks for the question,

Justin

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:23:16 +0000

Hey Justin,
Thanks for the tip – the default page setting works fine on my site but do you know of any solution to GA tracking separate entries for url’s that are entered with different capitalization?

ie – http://www.mySite.com/thisFolder/ is tracked separately than http://www.mySite.com/thisfolder/

Thanks,
Jeff

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:01:07 +0000

Hi Mike,

I’m gald you figured it out and glad you you enjoyed the post.

Thanks for reading!

Justin

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:58:32 +0000

k…I think I got it (for what it’s worth)…I missed the “/” at the end of the Website URL entry

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:17:34 +0000

Hey there, great article-good read.

I’m curious though, have you ever had the issue where GA wasn’t returning “great” data for the index page? See, I’m having an issue similar (or the same) as this one. My stats are showing very small pageviews for my homepage. Everything is set up correctly in my settings, but the numbers are still in the 10-15 range, while every other page is in the 1000′s. Ideas?

Also, you can actually see an entry for “/”. I don’t…and searching for “/” is difficult as it picks up pretty much every other page…

Anyway, if you have any suggestions or ideas I’d love to hear them…

Have a good one,

Mike

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By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:38:14 +0000

Hey Rob,

Unfortunately you can not change your historical data. Changes that you make to a profile configuration only affect the data going forward.

Thanks for the comment!

Justin

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:10:14 +0000

Thanks for the great tip! I have read all your blog posts and you are VERY helpful!

I made this change in my Google Analytics profile. My question is now for all the date ranges BEFORE i made this change I am getting visitor information for BOTH the root / AND /index.php.

AFTER I made this change when you look at the visitor information the top content just has /index.php.

How would I join the data for “/” and “/index.php” for the previous dates before I made this change in my profile?

Thanks!!

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Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:09:21 +0000

[...] In my previous post I discussed how an incorrect Default Page setting can cause a single page on your website to be counted as two different pages. That same concept is the driving force behind Common Google Analytics Configuration Mistake #2. If your website uses query string parameters you may be creating hundreds or thousands of unique page views which don’t actually exist. [...]