Regex Filter To Exlude lower case urls
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Buon Pormeriggio from Wetherby 22 degrees the summer continues!
I need to set up a regex filter to knock out lowecase versions of http://www.sandersonweatherall.co.uk/Sales/
Thing is Analytics is returning this lowercase version which i want to regex filter out.So if Regex filter /Sales/$ returns what i eant how do i knock out urls beginning with lowe case s.
Grazie,
David -
Buona sera David,
Go Into Admin for the Profile You Want to Update
Click on Filters
Click on +New Filter
Select Create new Filter
Call it "Lowercase My URLs", or you can call it "Steve", or "Nigel", whatever you want, its a free text field. I find descriptive is usually better.
Select Custom Filter
Select Lowercase (this is a default filter that will take everything and change to lower case).
Filter Field should be set to Request URI
In case you think I am a liar, once you fill out the above a yellow section will appear, click the ? and it will display:
"Google Analytics is case sensitive, so it captures the data exactly as it appears in the location bar of the browser. Therefore, if a mixed case URL is in the browser, it will be captured and displayed as mixed case within your Google Analytics reports. You can use the lowercase filter to change URLs like '/Thankyou.html' and '/ThankYou.html' into one unified URL in your reports: '/thankyou.html'. The uppercase filter can transform these same URLs into '/THANKYOU.HTML'."
Click Save
Note that when you look at your filters in GA, they run in order from top to bottom. So, look at your other filters and see if any would conflict etc to make sure you put in the right order. Once you view filters, you can click the button Assign Filter Order to move them around. You will probably be fine, but you dont want to shoot yourself in the head either.
Prego
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Buongiorno Clever,
Regarding: are you asking about a filter in GA to do this so your reports in GA are all consistent?
Yes please, this is excactly what I'd like to do
(Not 301 redirect to correct camel case)
Grazie,
David -
Just to understand your question, do you want to setup your site with 301s so that it self corrects URLs from Camel case to all lower case or are you asking about a filter in GA to do this so your reports in GA are all consistent?
Thanks!
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