I need, in my funnel description, to filter out the root page.
Someone before me wrote /$ which should be fine, except if the user arrives to some URL like https://example.com/?campaign_utm=xxx: this won't be taken in account, will it?
How can I make sure this is also taken in account. This must be something pretty common, right?
Actually, Google Analytics will strip special query parameters, like utm_campaign and other UTM parameters. If you would like to filter your root page, possibly containing any parameters, you can modify your regex to accept end of string or ? character:
\/(\?|$)
More precisely, to catch your root, it should also contain beginning of string:
^\/(\?|$)
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I'm quite new to using regex so I hope there's someone who can help me out. I want to set up an event on Google Tag Manager through RegEx that fires whenever someone views a page. I'm trying to do this using the Page URL as a parameter so that the event hits, when that URL is visited. Its for around 1400 urls that are in the same sub-folder but have a different page name. For example: https://www.example.com/products/product-name-1, https://www.example.com/products/product-name-2
What would be the best way to group these into one RegEx formula?
I've tried to separate all urls by using the '|' sign without any result. I've also tried this format, without any luck: (^/page-url-1/$|^/page-url-1/$|^/page-url-1/$|^/page-url-1/$)
A couple things are happening with your attempt. First, you aren't escaping the '/'. This is a reserved or special character and you will need to precede it with a \ to tell the engine that you want that specific character. It would look like this:
\/products\/page-url-1
I am assuming you are using a {{Page Path}} so the above would match for any paths that contain /products/page-url-1.
If you want the event to fire on all pages within the /products directory, there is an easier way of doing this.
\/products\/.*
what this will do is match any pages within your /products directory. If you have a landing page on /products, this will be omitted from the firing. The '.' means it will then match any character after the / and '*' means it can do this unlimited times.
EDIT:
Since you aren't looking for all the products pages, you can you a matching group and list them all. I suspect that all the product names will be different enough and not share any common path elements so you will have to list out the ones want.
\/products\/(product-url-1|product-url-2|product-url-3).*
A have a client who has an ecommerce website working on Wix. She asked me to setup the conversion funnel so she could identify when visitors leave a step, I mean, those who don't get to the order placed page. On Wix, we have 3 steps/urls, as below:
Cart: https://www.easyhomedesign.com.br/cart?appSectionParams=%7B%22origin%22%3A%22cart-popup%22%7D
Checkout: https://www.easyhomedesign.com.br/checkout?appSectionParams=%7B%22a11y%22%3Afalse%2C%22cartId%22%3A%2283476f86-4ac9-44ac-8779-4479dde12cc2%22%2C%22storeUrl%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.easyhomedesign.com.br%2F%22%2C%22isFastFlow%22%3Afalse%2C%22isPickupFlow%22%3Afalse%7D
and the Thank you page: https://www.easyhomedesign.com.br/thank-you-page/d28bc342-0afe-40cb-8d98-a5784b6b2f17
After each of those urls, we have dynamic string values, so I need to put into the funnel step, on the url field, those same urls but using a regex that matches to the config "starts with", since we can't know what the values on the end of the urls are and, on the funnel setup section, we don't have that combobox "Starts with". At least, that's the only solution I could think about.
Then, my idea is use something like https://www.easyhomedesign.com.br/thank-you-page/$. I don't know regex, that's only an example of what I thought about, since that part of the url is the fixed one.
Could someone help me? tks.
Although the final goal setup highly depends on your Analyitcs implementation, it is basically possible to cover such funnel with RegEx in goal funnels.
Google Analytics tracks page visits with path, buy default. So https://www.easyhomedesign.com.br/thank-you-page/d28bc342-0afe-40cb-8d98-a5784b6b2f17 will become /thank-you-page/d28bc342-0afe-40cb-8d98-a5784b6b2f17 in your reports. It can be set up to contain the domain, and the goal flow can be created as well, but it's important to check, how the RegEx should be created.
It is also important, if the above mentioned query parts are affecting the step, whether they are part of the flow or not.
Assuming that the path part is relevant, you can set up something like this.
Cart URL in reports: /cart?appSectionParams=%7B%22origin%22%3A%22cart-popup%22%7D
Cart step RegEx in goal flow: ^\/cart
^ stands for beginning of the string, but you might need to adjust, if host is present in your reports. You can also extend it to ^\/cart\?, if you expect any parameters to be present, to qualify for cart visit.
Checkout URL in reports: /checkout?appSectionParams=%7B%22a11y%22%3Afalse%2C%22cartId%22%3A%2283476f86-4ac9-44ac-8779-4479dde12cc2%22%2C%22storeUrl%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.easyhomedesign.com.br%2F%22%2C%22isFastFlow%22%3Afalse%2C%22isPickupFlow%22%3Afalse%7D
Checkout Cart step RegEx in goal flow: ^\/checkout
The same applies for checkout step for beginning of the string, or for any parameters required.
Thank you URL in reports: /thank-you-page/d28bc342-0afe-40cb-8d98-a5784b6b2f17
Thank you RegEx, which is essentially the goal's RegEx: ^\/thank-you-page\/[\w-]+
Here, the [\w-]+ part expects alphanumerical characters, underscore, or hyphen to be present. More precisely, one or more must exist there.
The $ sign, mentioned in the OP, could not be used here, as it indicates the end of the string, and therefore the id at the end of the URL would make it non-matching.
The issue is when using infusionsoft or another email platform, when a URL is used in an email, it adds a query string to the URL. If that URL is being redirected, it will not redirect properly with the query string attached, sending the user to a 404 page.
I am trying to figure out how to correctly create a regex expression in order to redirect the page and catch that query attached to it in order to redirect properly.
I think I've figured out how to do THAT, but then need to figure out how to exclude a URL that has the same beginning text...
For example:
If the original url is: /page-url/
And needs to redirect to /page-url-free/
So these versions need to redirect:
/page-url/page-url/
/page-url/?inf_contact_key=474a03f754bb3dadf5415b3b652fc7baa6979sf0112d3fe
But I need the regex expression to NOT catch /page-url-free/ since that would cause an infinite loop.
Any advice would be amazing. Thanks so much
If you just need to replace page-url with page-url-free, with keeping the query parameters (if provideds) exactly the same, the following regex will work:
\/(page-url)(?:\/\?.+)?$
The above regex will capture page-url which can then be easily replaced with page-url-free depending on what you are using.
I am trying to write a regular expression to be used in a Google Analytics goal that will match URLs containing
?package=whatever
and also
/success
The user will first visit a page like
www.website.com/become-client/?package=greatpackage
and if they purchase they will be lead to this page
www.website.com/become-client/?package=greatpackage/success
So based on this I could use the following regex
\?package\=greatpackage/success
This should match the correct destination and I would be able to use this in the goal settings in Analytics to create a goal for purchases of the greatpackage package.
But sometimes the website will use other parameters in addition to ?package. Like ?type, ?media and so on.
?type=business
Resulting in URLs like this
www.website.com/become-client/?package=greatpackage?type=business
and if they purchase they will be lead to this page
www.website.com/become-client/?package=greatpackage?type=business/success
Now the /success part is moved away from the ?package part. My questions is how do I write a regex that will still match this URL no matter what other parameters there may be in between the parts?
---update----
#jonarz proposed the following and it works like a charm.
\?package\=greatpackage(.*?)/success
But what if there are two products with nearly the same name. For example greatpackage and greatpackageULTRA. The code above will select both. If changing the product names is impossible, how can I then select only one of them?
The regex that would solve the problem introduced in the edit, would be:
\?package\=greatpackage((\?|\/)(.*?))?\/success(\/|\b)
Here is a test: https://regex101.com/r/jS4cH5/1 and it seems to suit your needs.
If you want to match an url like this one :
www.website.com/become-client/?package=greatpackage?type=business?other=nada/success
With a group to extract your package type :
.*\?package=([^\/?]+).*\/success
Without group (just matching the url if it's containing package=greatpackage and success)
.*\?package=greatpackage.*\/success
Without group and matching for any package type :
.*\?package=[^\/?]+.*\/success
You just need to add .* to match any char (except new lines). The [^/?]* part is there to be sure your package type isn't empty (ie : the first char isn't a / nor ?).
I am attempting to set up a goal funnel in Google Analytics. It is for an online quote request system that we want to track. Basically all the pages that contain the quote request form have unique dynamically generated urls that are similar. The form of the URL is:
/quoterequest/categoryone/categorytwo/productname/
I have regex that works for tracking that:
^/quoterequest/([A-Za-z0-9/-]+)?
Today we added a thank you page after the user submits the form. The URL is always the same for that:
/quoterequest/thanks/
I would like to modify the above regex so that it continues to match any of the Quote Request URLs, but NOT that thank you URL. I have been trying different variations, including t. he negative look ahead,but unfortunately I am not very experienced with regex and I think I've been doing it completely incorrectly. Can anyone give me some insight as to the correct method of doing this?
You can use:
^\/quoterequest\/(?!thanks\/?$)(?:([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\/?)*$
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