Events - Visits the URL

• Create the Event
• Wildcards
• Partial URLs
• Tracking Different Subdomains
• Query Strings
• Technical Notes
  • Testing

Create the Event

To track that people have viewed a certain page, grab the URL of the page and name the event something easy to remember.

Some examples include:

• The URL of a landing page
• The payment confirmation page of a checkout process
• The URL of your pricing page
• A URL to download a key document of yours
• The final page of any funnel on your site

If you want to track every page view, you can enable it in your JavaScript settings. However, we really, really recommend you create unique events for individual URLs to make the most of our reporting tools.

Wildcards

You can also record visits to similar URLs under one event name. Use * to indicate wildcards.

For example, let’s say you’re giving out beta invites to your site. All of the URLs are generated according to a pattern, like:

• yourdomain.com/beta/TIC04tRF9Y
• yourdomain.com/beta/89rrPNMWsD

You could record visits to yourdomain.com/beta/*/, which encompasses all of these similar URLs. Please refer to Wildcards for more examples.

Partial URLs

Rather than typing in the domain of your site every time, you can use partial URLs. Here are some examples:

• https://yourdomain.com/plans is the same as /plans
• http://yourdomain.com/reports/* is the same as /reports/*

To clarify, a partial URL is the entire part of the URL that follows the domain.

Don’t forget about that initial /!

Tracking Different Subdomains

However, if you do want to differentiate different subdomains, we can support that too! Please verify in your site’s JavaScript Settings that the option for Include URL Host and Subdomain (Event Library) is enabled. This lets our Event Library differentiate events that occur on similar URLs:

• https://sub1.yourdomain.com/foo
• https://sub2.yourdomain.com/foo
• https://sub3.yourdomain.com/foo

This option is enabled by default.

Query Strings

The Event Library can differentiate between two query strings, (the ends of some URLs that start with ?). That is, you can safely set up these events to be different from each other:

• Event 1 = http://yourdomain.com/foo.html?id=1
• Event 2 = http://yourdomain.com/foo.html?id=2

(In this example, we detect the difference between ?id=1 and ?id=2 though they’re on the same page /foo.html.)

Technical Notes

• Our Event Library URL detection has difficulty with hash symbols # in the URL. Considering placing record calls from our JavaScript Library on the pages you wish to track, especially if you are using backbone.js.

Testing

To quickly test your URL pattern without creating an event, you can open up your browser’s JavaScript console and run KM.um(pattern), where pattern is your URL pattern:

> KM.um("/beta/*");
true