Comments on: Basing a dimension on a subpart of a URL

By: Cool Custom Dimension: Banish unneeded prefixes from Referring Sites reports | WebTrends Outsider

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:01:29 +0000

[...] to two ways to extract just a part of a dimension value. Very handy. We’ve discussed the Advanced button before and also used it in the Display Google Organic Ranks [...]

By: rocky

rocky — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:27:29 +0000

Have now added a post that works with this principle based on referring page >> http://www.webtrendsoutsider.com/2009/cool-custom-report-google-organic-rank-dimension/

By: rocky

rocky — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:45:53 +0000

Marco – you are absolutely right. I’ve changed the original. Thanks!

Winter – yes, referring *page* is a perfect use for it, much more so than domain or site.

By: Winter

Winter — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:52:45 +0000

This works great with referring page, which, naturally, cannot be rewritten using URL Search/Replace. For instance, some advertising networks tend to add cookie IDs on redirect, which causes endless unique referrers.

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:45:26 +0000

Beautiful article about a very useful mechanism in WT, as you say.

But just my 2 cents on example 2:

You say “you want to use only the numeral after ” and then use ([a-zA-Z0-9]*) in the regexp.
English is not my mother tongue, but if “numeral” is equivalent to numeric value (and the sample URLs make think it would, as only digits occur afte F_XXX_), then the regexp should merely use ([0-9]*), it would be alphanumeric otherwise…

I admit, just a detail…