Entry page with multiple different websites in one reporting suite

[DotYourIs]

We are sending data from multiple websites into a single reporting suite intentionally, allowing us to potentially track customer journeys across different sites.

To aid analysts in focusing on specific websites, we provide Virtual Report Suites (VRS) for hits from individual sites (based on Site Section value). However, our chosen setup results in the Entry Page being the initial page of a visit, which may span multiple websites in some cases.

When a VRS encompasses hits from a specific website only, the Entry Page may still belong to a different website actually not covered by the VRS. Is there a method to identify the first page visited within the VRS exclusively?

[kayawalton · Accepted solution]

Hi @DotYourIs -- 

If you're trying to identify entry pages for a specific domain only, you can create a Freeform Table with Page URL as rows and Entries as columns and filter the Page URLs containing only that specific domain.

Inversely, if you are trying to identify the other entry pages that did not belong to the domain, you can exclude the domain from your data row. Depending on how your segment for the VRS is set up (we have a similar setup at our org), you should be able to see the first page visited -- same domain or not -- because it sounds like you're accounting for any hits to any pages within that domain in your VRS regardless of the entry pages. 

If you want a VRS that only accounts for visits that landed within the domain, you will have to create a separate segment and VRS for that.

[DotYourIs]

Hi @kayawalton. Thanks for the great tip! I wasn't considering the Entries metric, but it it does exactly the job.