Page Targeting for Funnels

To better understand how URL targeting works, it is good to also understand what components form a URL:

Components of a URL

Hotjar's page targeting rules for Funnels are:

• Simple Match: This is the default match type and is used to target a page on your site, ignoring any query strings and fragments as well as protocol, http vs https, and the presence or not of 'www'.
• Exact Match: Targets a specific URL, including the protocol, which can include a query string and fragment.
• Starts With: Target all pages that have a URL, including the protocol, which starts with the entered text.
• Ends With: Target all pages that have a URL which ends in the entered text.
• Contains: Target all pages which contain the entered text.
• Regular Expression: A regular expression, regex or regexp for short, is a special text string for describing a search pattern.
• Virtual Page View:A JavaScript snippet that allows you to track a URL even if your visitors did not actually have that URL loaded in their browser or the URL doesn't change.

Simple Match

This is the default match type and is intended to be used to target a page on your site. The match will be correct if the URL path your visitor is on, matches the URL path you specify.

Simple Match - http://www.x.com/pages/

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Exact Match

The match will be correct if the URL path, query string and fragment your visitor is on match EXACTLY the ones you specify.

Exact Match - http://www.x.com/pages/?x=1

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Starts With

The match will be correct if the URL your visitor is on, starts exactly as you specify it, including the protocol.

Starts with - http://www.x.com/pages/

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Ends With

The match will be correct if the URL your visitor is on, ends exactly as you specify it.

Ends with - pages/

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Contains

The match will be correct if the URL your visitor is on, contains the text you specified.

Contains - ?x=1

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