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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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've searched all the other Regex on Google Analytics questions but I can't use the answers as this is pretty specific to my problem.
I want to set a destination URL goal but use Regex to flag it as a goal IF string includes /general/
I basically want to track everyone in GA who goes to a Vehicle Detail Page but /general/ brings them to a Search Results Page.
so in other words
/used-cars/general is not correct
/used-cars/citreon/ is correct
/used-cars/TOYOTA/ is correct
Basically, any other car maker is correct after /used-cars/ regardless if it is capitalized or not.
Thanks in advance, everyone.
Your regex is on the right path, but you should escape any special characters. Try the below instead:
/used\-cars/(citreon|TOYOTA|RENAULT|VOLKSWAGEN|VAUXHALL|HONDA|BMW|NISSAN|PEUGEOT|DS|FORD|HYUNDAI|INFINITI|MERCEDES\-BENZ|MITSUBISHI)/
I'm relatively new to regex and in order to set up a goal in Google Analytics, I'd like to use a regular expression to match a URL containing both "thank-you" and "purchaseisFree=False" but exclude two specific rate plans that are represented in the URL as "productRatePlanID=5197e" and "productRatePlanID=c1760".
Here is a full URL example:
https://www.examplepage.com/thank-you?productRatePlanId=5197e&purchaseIsFree=False&grossTotal=99.95&netTotal=99.95&couponCode=&invoiceNumber=INV00000589
I tried using this post as a model and created this regex:
\bthank-you\b.+\purchaseIsFree=False\b(?:$|=[^c1760]|[^5197e])
However, I'm not getting the desired results. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
I think the below mentioned regex should solve your problem. It uses the positive|negative look ahead facility. We can sit at the beginning of http[s] and check all the three condition and then engulp the whole tree
(https?:\/\/)(?=.*?productRatePlanId=(?!5197e&)(?!c1760&))(?=.*?thank-you)(?=.*?purchaseisFree=False).*
Note:- I have used & after the productRatePlanId values just to ensure it doesnt ignore other values as 5197f, 5198d and all other sorts of values.
I want to extract URLs from a webpage these are just URLs by themselves not hyperlinks etc., they are just text. Some examples would be http://www.example.com, http://example.com, www.example.com etc. I am extremely new at regex so I have copy and pasted like 20 expressions online all failed to work. I don't know if I am doing it right or not. Any help would be really appreciated.
I wrote a post on using Regex to locate links within a HTML page (the intent was to use JavaScript to open external links or links to documents such as PDF's etc in a popup window).
The final regex was:
^(?:[./]+)?(?:Assets|https?://(?!(?:www.)?integralist))
The full post is here:
http://www.integralist.co.uk/javascript/regular-expression-to-open-external-links-in-popup-window/
The solution wont be perfect but might help point you in the right direction.
Mark
You're probably not escaping your .s. You need to use \. for each one.
Take a look at strfriend.com. It has a URL example, and represents it graphically.
The example it suggests is:
^((ht|f)tp(s?)://|~/|/)?(\w+:\w+#)?([a-zA-Z]{1}([\w-]+.)+(\w{2,5}))(:\d{1,5})?((/?\w+/)+|/?)(\w+.\w{3,4})?((\?\w+=\w+)?(&\w+=\w+)*)?