Filter session ID with Google Analytics
Today a request reaches me with the following problem:
The reader has a shop which generates a new session ID each time you visit and then packaged in the URL. It looks like this:
/ cgi-bin/shop/47125eba00685728274050f3360805ed/product/view/FRC3962246B
Changes the URL for each visitor to each beautiful statistics in the bucket is of course. My first advice would be to ban the session ID from the URL of course, because there it has nothing to find my opinion. But there is a solution with a filter for Google Analytics. You can simply take a search and replace filter and filter out the session ID by regular expression. Because I don’t have a shop with such URL structure unfortunately I could not test the filter. So take care!
And the filter would look like:
The regular expression \\w+ which searches for any character string of alphanumeric characters and numbers is important. If you know how long is the session ID, you could restrict the number of characters.
Because I did something on instinct the filter, I would very happy feedback and any corrections or problems in the comments.
And remember: always first create a copy of the profile, otherwise the data is gone. Filter unfortunately don’t apply to existing data, only for the future collected.
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