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Entry Page and Hit Depth, Real-Case

  • January 11, 2019
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Hello Experts,

Since I posted a thread:Why "entry page" cannot match "hit depth = 1"  and it is answered.

But I would like to ask a real case here to make it clear:

e.g., a visit as below:

Type URL > Landing on PageA > Click LinkB > Visit PageB > Search on Google (or type the URL) > Landing on PageC

1. What's the entry page of the visit? (PageA, or PageA and PageC)

2. What's the hit depth of pageC?

3. Will pageC get a count on its' entries as well? (if pageC get its Entries+1, will it be entry page?)

   

Reason:

I get following table: on our last level "content" page (like PageC), most them get "entries", but their hit-depth-1 pageviews are most 0, there are more than 500 pages  have same results.

So, i supposed, user explore and try to reach the page (like PageC) while exploring inside the website, but cannot find the link to the pageC, then, user eventually entrered the page from search engine or a external referrer or type URL.

Then, in above user path, the "content" page will get a "entries" +1, but the hit-depth is bigger than 1 since s/he has already explored some pages in the website before reach the "content" page.

So, it means, Entries of a page will +1 once it is viewed by a user from external website, but not only the first page of the visit, is it?

Is it correct?

But when I breakdown one example page by "traffic source", it looks like below:

I tried but don't really understand this situation.

May I have your comments to this?

Thank you.

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    Best answer by Urs_Boller

    unfortunatelly yes, page C will not show up as entry page.

    the problem is that "entry page" is not really the page where a user landed from outside, it is the first page analytics recorded during a specific visit.

    for entry/exit use the following explanation: if you would write all hits in an excel table (rows) having the pagename in one column. (as in your picture) then

    entry page -> first value in the col

    exit page -> last value in the col

    does that help? read more about entry/exit here: Entries and Exits

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    H_LAuthor
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    March 7, 2019

    Here we use another way:

    Create a new prop to record "referrering domain" other than the default one in Adobe Analytics.

    This prop records ALL referrering domain, include internal one.

    Since prop will be expired after 1 hit, then, create segment:

    prop contains google, bing, etc. as enter from search engine

    prop contains twitter, facebook, etc., as enter from social

    similar segments for email marketing (regular, LCM), for internal

    Then we can identify those view/visits from outside websites, as entry.

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