/a appended to URLs in Google Analytics

Hi Rob, yes, this is related to page variants. /a is the “A” variant. If you create a “B” variant, it would be appended with /b in analytics. The user won’t see this in the URL when visiting the page. It’s only for tracking purposes on the backend.

Also, as a somewhat related useful little tip… if you ever want to see a variant of a live page, you can just append “/a.html” onto the end of the URL, replacing “a” with whatever the variant is that you want to view.

Can you please guide me how to remove this /a from the Google analytics.
We are not running any a/b testing even though our pages appearing with and without “/a” . Please find the screenshot for same. We are unable to find the which is the correct traffic report because of this issue.

Please suggest me also how to remove the /a from the Google Analytics

I still have not found a solution. Unbounce team?

Let me post a solution if you guys are still looking for one. Incidentally, I do not see variant IDs for my AB tests:

There are 2 ways to accomplish this:

1. Changing page path at the source: (I wouldnt recommend it though because you lose the variant ID). In this method, you will have to modify your GA script to overwrite the page path. You’ll have to do that before you send a pageview to your tracker. This script works well for me:

    var pagePath = window.location.pathname; 
    var pagepathLength = pagePath.length;
    var result = pagePath.match(/\/[^\/]+(?=\/$|$)/g);

    //checks for only the last char
      var matchreg1 = /\/[a-z]$/g;

    //check for last char with .html in the end
      var matchreg2 = /\/[a-z]\.html$/g;

    if (matchreg1.test(result)) {
      finalUrl = pagePath.substring(0, pagepathLength-1);
      } else if (matchreg2.test(result)) {
        finalUrl = pagePath.substring(0, pagepathLength-6);
        } else {
      finalUrl = pagePath;
      }

      ga('set', 'page', finalUrl);

After this you can send your pagview hit as normal

2. Modifying your URLs in GA View. I would recommend this solution because you’ll have your raw URLs as well as the overwritte URLs. I’d suggest that you start with duplicating the view you use. Create a new GA view. We are going to add the Search and Replace filter.
   Filter > Add New Filter > Name the filter > Choose “Custom” in Filter Type. Choose “Search and Replace” > Choose “Request URI” in Filter Field.
   Add this code in the Search String
   (\/[a-z]$)|(\/[a-z]\.html$)
   If you want the URL to end with a trailing slash, add / in the “Replace String”. If not, leave it blank.
   Go ahead and “save”.
   Go to your AB test URL and check in Real Time > Content report if thats the URL you want.
   
   

Important

1. Make sure that you add the filter to your Test View first and test before adding this to your actual reporting view.
2. It only takes care of any URLs that you see end with /a or /b or /c OR /a.html or /b.html or /c.html
   If you have consciously built such URLs for your website in the past and they are live, be careful of using this solution because this will strip that part from any URL match that it finds.

Hope this helps everybody! 🙂