URL Filtering for Continuous Heatmaps

You can view Continuous Heatmap data for a single page or a group of pages. When viewing a Heatmap for a group of pages, you’ll only see one screenshot, but the data that appears over the screenshot will be aggregated from all matching pages.

There are five URL filtering options that you can choose from.

1. Single page: This is the default match type and is used to target a specific page on your site, ignoring any query strings and fragments that might get added, as well as ignoring the protocol, HTTP vs HTTPS, and the presence or not of 'www'.
2. Single page with “Exact Match”: If you select the ‘Exact Match’ checkbox, your results will show data for people who visited that specific URL, including the protocol and any query strings and fragments.
3. All pages containing: Displays data for all URLs which contain the entered text. This rule is case sensitive.
4. All pages starting with: Displays “Exact Match” results for all URLs that begin with the entered text, including the protocol.
5. All pages ending with: Displays “Exact Match” results for all URLs that end with the entered text, including strings and fragments.

 

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Single page

This is the default match type that allows you to view a Continuous Heatmap for a specific page on your site. The match will be correct if the URL path that visitors land on matches the URL path you specify.

Single page - http://www.x.com/pages/

Result	Example URL	Why?
MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/	The domain (x.com) and page path (/pages) is a match
NO MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/subpage	/subpage is not part of the page path criteria
MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/?x=1	The query string (?x=1) is ignored
MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/?x=1&y=1	The query string (?x=1&y=1) is ignored
MATCH	http://www.x.com/PAGES	The single page method is NOT case sensitive
MATCH	https://www.x.com/pages/	The HTTPS protocol is ignored
MATCH	http://x.com/pages	The www. prefix to the domain is ignored
MATCH	https://x.com/pages/	The HTTPS and www. prefix to the domain are ignored

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Single page - exact match

The match will be correct if the URL path, query-string, and fragment that visitors land on match EXACTLY the ones you specify.

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

Result	Example URL	Why?
✔️MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/?x=1	All URL components are an exact match
❌NO MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/subpage	The required query string (?x=1) is missing and the page path should not include /subpage
❌NO MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/	The required query string (?x=1) is missing
❌NO MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/?x=1&y=1	The URL has a non-matching query string (&y=1) at the end of it
❌NO MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/?x=1#2	The URL has a non-matching URL fragment (#2) at the end of it
❌NO MATCH	https://www.x.com/pages/?x=1	The URL protocol (HTTPS) needs to be changed to HTTP to become an exact match.

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All pages containing

The match will be correct if the URL that visitors land on includes the text you specified.

All pages containing - ?x=1

Result	Example URL
✔️MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/?x=1#2
✔️MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/?x=1&y=1
✔️MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/?x=1
❌NO MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/subpage
❌NO MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/

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All pages starting with

The match will be correct if the URL that visitors land on starts exactly as you specify it, including the protocol.

All pages starting with - http://www.x.com/pages/

Result	Example URL
✔️MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/
✔️MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/subpage
✔️MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/?x=1
✔️MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/?x=1&y=1
✔️MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/?x=1#2
❌NO MATCH	https://www.x.com/pages/

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All pages ending with

The match will be correct if the URL that visitors land on ends exactly as you specify it.

All pages ending with - pages/

Result	Example URL
✔️MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/
❌NO MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/subpage
❌NO MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/?x=1
❌NO MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/?x=1&y=1
❌NO MATCH	http://www.x.com/pages/?x=1#2

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