Is 'dp' correctly populated in pageviews?

[AndrewIsh]

Hi

Apologies if this is actually a question best suited for Angulartics, I wasn't sure, but since I'm using both Piwik and Google Analytics plugins and only seeing this in GA, I thought I'd start here :-)

I'm comparing what's sent to GA between pageviews and events and am seeing a disparity and, despite having consulted the GA documentation, am still not very clear if it's correct or not.

Here are a couple of the relevant parameters send for a pageview:

dl:https://mydomain.com/
dp:https://mydomain.com/#/buffer/2591

and for a subsequent event triggered on the same page:

dl:https://mydomain.com/
dp:/buffer/2591

My question is surrounding the dp parameter. According to the documentation:

Should begin with '/'. For 'pageview' hits, either &dl or both &dh and &dp have to be specified for the hit to be valid.

No mention is made of what form dp should take and whether it should differ between pageview hits and event hits. So I'm wondering why it is in this case and whether it's correct?

Is anyone able to shed any light on this? Thanks!

[DanWilkerson]

Hey, that's correct, the pageview should start with a / and not the entire domain. Could you share the settings you're using? I'll take a look.

[AndrewIsh]

Hi

The only setting I have that isn't default is:

$analyticsProvider.virtualPageviews(false);

Disabling this doesn't seem to make any difference.

Anything else I could check?

[DanWilkerson]

Hm, not sure - when I use those settings, I'm just seeing the path, not the whole URL:

https://embed.plnkr.co/E1pkruXFhMfvMGF0CK2y/

Anything else you can spot that may be different..?

[AndrewIsh]

Interesting, I'm not seeing any GA hit output in the console in that Plunker.

Here's a recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-pNMV5EBjtMZGFidzh2T3lUYjQ/view

The only difference I can see is that I'm explicitly calling:

$analytics.pageTrack($location.absUrl());

I'm wondering if the problem is my use of absUrl() here?

[AndrewIsh]

Just to update, switching to:

$analytics.pageTrack($location.url());

causes dp to be set correctly. So, that would appear to be my problem. Would you agree?

[DanWilkerson]

👍 Yep, that's it. That value just gets passed straight to the dp param.

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Just to update, switching to:

$analytics.pageTrack($location.url());

causes dp to be set correctly. So, that would appear to be my problem. Would you agree?

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[AndrewIsh]

Aha, excellent. Mystery solved :) Now I just need to figure out how to make eventTrack() consistent. But that's not your problem! Thanks very much for the help, much appreciated.

[DanWilkerson]

Sure thing; happy to help!

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Aha, excellent. Mystery solved :) Now I just need to figure out how to make eventTrack() consistent. But that's not your problem! Thanks very much for the help, much appreciated.

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