Site URL or index.php appended in Google Analytics
by Sadik on 13/01/10 at 1:30 am
I have always had this strange problem that all my site’s URL’s in Google Analytics have my full site URL appended. I am talking about my Oracle Forums. I always ignored it because the stats were being shown correctly.
Today, I decided to investigate it, and is it turns out the “fix” is really simple. From the main Analytics page, edit the profile for the website which is having the problem, by clicking on “edit” on the right hand side. There is a field called “Default page”. Whatever value you will have in that will be appended to all your URL’s by Google Analytics. I had my full site URL in that field. Google says:
The Default page is the webpage to which your server defaults when no page on the domain is specified. For example, if the “index.html” page is loaded from your server when a user enters “www.yourdomain.com”, “index.html” is considered to be the Default page.
Your Analytics Profile Settings page contains a field in which to specify your default page. This information allows Google Analytics to combine hits to www.yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com/index.html, which are in fact the same page. If Default page isn’t specified, these would be reported as two separate pages.
It seems there is some bug in the system, due to which the Default Page functionality is adding the value stored in it to all urls. Anyways to resolve it, simply click on Edit on the top right side in the Main Website Profile Information box where the Default page seting is being shown and clear the field.
