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What I Wanted

I was going to use urls like /item/xxx (viewing an item) and /item/xxx/photo (viewing the full screen photo of an item) because I thought that looked better and was more RESTful.

Problems

  • I realized that I wouldn't be able to track total item views because the urls would cross over each other (i.e. you can see the total hits you had to all urls starting with /item/ but that would include the photo URLs).

  • I wouldn't be able to track the total photo views because the url would have the id before the photo part (i.e. I can't look at all urls starting with /item/xxx/photo

Question

Am I wrong? Can i still find these numbers (I'm using Google Analytics)? Or am I better off changing the URLs to /item/view/xxx and /item/photo/xxx? This is for an iPhone app so the URLs are really arbitrary (I can set them to whatever I want and no one will see them except in the analytics).

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  • You can use report filters with regex and see those numbers. Notice that report filters are not the same as profile filters. Report Filters are non-destructive and can be applied to historical data. – Eduardo Mar 23 '12 at 01:25

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If you want to get metrics for just URLs with the /item/xxx structure while excluding /item/xxx/photo ones, instead of just typing text into the filter box, you can use the advanced filter option for 'Matching RegExp'. (Click on the text 'advanced' next to the text entry field).

And use a regular expression to exclude the /item/xxx/photo while also including /item/xxx:

  • Exclude Page Matching RegExp: item/(.)*/photo$
  • And Include Page Containing: item/
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