Does flow track user journeys when a user isn't clicking through page links to navigate a website?

[alchan]

For adobe analytics, does the flow chart record a user journey where they browse through the site by inputting different URLs instead of clicking on a link on the page. Ex: going from reddit.com/r/AskReddit to to the homepage by inputting reddit.com instead of clicking the home page logo.

[Jennifer_Dungan · Accepted solution]

Yes, Adobe looks at each hit by the identified user and the timestamp of the hit... So if a user is bouncing between multiple tabs, the flow can get a little "wonky".

• Tab 1 - Page 1
• Click to open Page 2 in a new tab
• Tab 2, Page 3
• Tab 2, Page 4
• Back to Tab 1, Page 5
• Open a new tab directly, open Page 6
• Tab 3, type in URL directly to Page 7
• Go to bookmarks, open Page 8

The pages will show in the above flow, so in "Tab 1" the user was on Page 1, then did stuff in other tabs and clicked through from Tab 1 Page 1 to Page 5 (the flow will still show Page 4 > Page 5 - but the Activity Map data will show Page 1 as the previous page).

Some of these flows can get a little strange to follow in-depth.