Combining similar URLs in Google Analytics (with a

Question

I have a lot of similar URLs that I would like to merge in Google Analytics. I've managed to merge a lot of them already. However I've now run into a bit of a problem.

I have URLs that look something like this;

article/4567/edit
article/87478548/edit

article/82984786/add
article/8374/add

How would I go about merging these URLs so that they display as;

article/edit
article/add

Any help is greatly appreciated.

EDIT: I also need to be able to have GA display every article in one line on the table called "article/" regardless of any ID that is after it. I don't want the table to look like:

article/12342 1,000 views
article/7465890 900 views

I need it to display as:

article/ 1,900 views

Answer 1

From this Combining similar URLs in Google Analytics you can find out how to do it. You need to use a regex. Something like this should work (did not test it).

(article\/)[0-9]*\/(edit|add)

Answer 2

You can create an Advanced filter that combines the relevant parts for you:

The output would be /article/edit or /article/add, with everything and anything between those removed.

EDIT: If you just want everything, regardless of /edit, /add, /12341/edit, /7305/add, /whatever/edit, to show up just as /article, then you can just change your filter like this:

Field A: Request URI = (/article)/.*

Output to: Request URI = $A1

This will convert the following examples:

• /article/123/edit -> /article
• /article/2345/add -> /article
• /article/anything -> /article