Where does gtag pageview's 'page_location' get reported?

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I'm using the Google Analytics's gtag.js on a single-page webapp (SPA). As suggested in the docs for SPAs, I've disabled the automatic send_page_view and instead explicitly send a page view by setting a page_path and page_title to the gtag config. So far, so good.

The docs also list an optional page_location parameter to send the page's full URL. For my app's search page, I'm particularly interested in getting the full query params after the ? in the URL, so I tried adding it to that payload:

   gtag('config', GA_TRACKING_ID, {
     page_location: window.location.href,
     page_title: 'app search page',
     page_path: '/search',
   });

However I never see a full URL in either the Anlaytics web UI or in its export to BigQuery. I only the page_title and page_path. Where does page_location end up getting stored or reported?

you may also be able to find help here https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/ — Linda Lawton - DaImTo, Jan 23 '20 at 07:43
I'll ask future questions to webmasters.SE. If you work at Google, heads up that their pages point users to Stack Overflow, not webmasters.SE: https://developers.google.com/analytics/community#developer-discussion-groups — Jeff G, Jan 23 '20 at 16:31
I know it does i have asked them to fix that a number of times — Linda Lawton - DaImTo, Jan 23 '20 at 18:23

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '20 at 12:13

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page_location is not reported in Analytics but might be used for processing source and medium parameters and for extracting page_path if not provided.

answered Jan 23 '20 at 12:13

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So you're suggesting that if I had set `page_location` but not `page_path`, then it would use this to derive the missing `page_path`? – Jeff G Jan 28 '20 at 01:19

Where does gtag pageview's 'page_location' get reported?

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