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

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:00:12 +0000

@ Lara: It sounds like something at the server level. As you mentioned, it might be the configuration of the 301. You can use an Advanced Filter in Google Analytics to normalize the page, but I would try to fix things at the server level.

By: Lara

Lara — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:35:41 +0000

Justin, I think it has to do something with the redirect from http to https? My site is 301nd to https but why am I getting traffic to my old http:www.mywebsite.com/index.com url structure still?

( / )indicated home page, but /http:www.mywebsite.com/index.com url indicates what…? Another home page? Am confused..!! :(((

By: Lara

Lara — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:29:30 +0000

Here is a little change…….. the new parameter shows /http://www.mywebsite.com/index.html ..? Instead of index.html or simply ( / )
Please suggest me what should be done…As am getting weird looking at traffic to this new home page which is the same as my home page ( / )
….I do also see traffic to / but the traffic to /http://www.mywebsite.com/index.html is more than I get for ( / )

How can I remove showing up traffic to /http://www.mywebsite.com/index.html ??
Can you analyze where I went wrong?

By: Lara

Lara — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:18:52 +0000

Hi Justin,
Can we do something about the https? I have my account where my website visitors are tracked for both / and /http://mywebsite.com/

What is this new /http://mywebsite.com/ ??
I don’t understand where the mistake arises?

Previously I dint add index.html as a default web page. But few weeks before I added index.html as default page as I was not getting rid of this new /http://mywebsite.com/ thing which kept showing a huge no. of visitors compared to the usual /

Any suggestions?

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