New
Next or Previous panel – option to include repeat instances and visit entries
Hi everyone,
We use the Next or Previous panel to analyse navigation, and we compared it with paths rebuilt from our raw data (page events ordered by timestamp within each visit). The results are very close, which makes this panel really valuable. But I think two options are missing to reflect real user behaviour:
- Include repeat instances. The panel uses the "Non-repeating instance" model, so consecutive views of the same page (e.g. a search results page reloaded after each date change) disappear. Flow already offers "Include repeat instances". Having the same setting here would make both views consistent.
- Show visit entries. When the page is the first of the visit, there is no previous page, and these occurrences are excluded. A "No previous page / Entry" row would let the previous pages add up to 100% of the page's occurrences.
Today we work around this with a manually edited segment, but it has to be rebuilt for every page and panel, which doesn't scale.
Would others find this useful too?