How to remove unwanted dynamic parameters from a URL in Google Analytics

[Sarbs]

Hi,

Would really appreciate some help with this. I have been experimenting with RegEx to achieve this but as I’ve never used it before am currently failing miserably.

We have conversion pages i need to set goals for that are formatted as below:

https://www.domain.co.uk//Application_Form/(S(ewhbqp5cki0mppuzukunkqno))/enterCardDetails.aspx

I need to remove the (s(xxx)) section from the URL as rather than one pages i currently have thousands of unique URL's. What’s catching me out is that as it’s not a URL parameter I can’t discount and as half way through can’t just do head matches etc to /entercarddetails

Help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[Sarbs]

Thats great thanks very much for your help Martjin. Would have got back to you sooner but was testing it out, just needed to put a .* and added a .* to the end to to deal with our multitude of URL paramaters. Happily watching the data roll on in now.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Rich,

You were close with excluding parameters but the solution would be using a filter. By using a filter you can search and replace the (s(xx)) section with nothing so you get one URL for all your duplicate URLs. In this example I set up an example on how your filter should look like. However because I'm not able to test this you should be cautious and test this out on a test profile with your data before you save this filter on your main Google Analytics profile.

Hope this helps, let me know if you have any more questions!