How to See the Full Referring URL in GA - Google Analytics

• How to extract the Referral URl like www.facebook.com/l.php To show the visit, from proper referral Url..?

Ans:

Google Analytics doesn’t let you see from what specific page your visitors are coming from particular referral link Url.

For example, instead of showing this as the traffic referrer:

http://www.facebook.com/sharksaversespana/posts/360487370703726

It will just show you this: facebook.com/l.php

That’s not very useful information…

The solution to view the full URL of the referring site is to implement, We can use filters to place the referrer into the User Defined Report.

To see the full URL, You need to set up the custom filter, For set up follow this Instructions:

Go to your Google Analytics account (Click Admin) and click on Filter Manager > Add Filter, and enter the following information:

Filter Name: Full Referrer (or whatever you want to call it)

Filter Type: Custom Filter -> Advanced

Field A -> Extract A: Referral (.*)

Field B -> Extract B: leave blank

Output To -> Constructor: User Defined $A1

Field A Required: Yes

Field B Required: No

Override Output Field: Yes

Case Sensitive: No

It should be look like this:

Please look at your Traffic Sources, in GA, You frequently see like this:

Too see your User Defined Report With the full information about the referring sites, click on “Content” in the secondary dimensions and choose “User Defined Value”. You should get something like this:

That’s it! Pretty easy, yet very useful.

- By Jigar Pandya

References:

http://www.sebastienpage.com/2009/05/06/google-analytics-trick-see-the-full-referring-url/

GA Help: 

http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1033863

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