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Destination goals tracking "Unique Pageviews" or "Visits"?


In Google analytics, what's being tracked in destination goals? Is it visits to a page or unique page views? Is there anyway to change what the goal can track?


Solution

  • The way Destination goals work is they get logged when ever anyone hits the URL. So if the person has been there before it will be logged a second time.

    To answer your question its not unique and i don't think you can change that. Only way i can think of to maybe get around that would be to set a cookie on there browser and use that to change the URL adding something like ?hasbeenhere=1 and then set up a dynamic URL that would ignore it in the Goal. But i haven't tried that it was just an idea.

    Dynamically generated or variable URLs

    I hope this helps.