One of my biggest problems with Google Analytics has always been that you can’t get the full referring URL of where someone came from. For example – if you someone came from http://www.domain.com/referring-exact-page.php – it just shows up in Analytics as http://www.domain.com – which only gives you half the story. I want to be able to track down the exact place if neccessary – not have to hunt through a site to find the page.
Luckily Reuben Yau has come up with a hack that integrates the Urchin Tracker Script, which is usually used for tracking javascript or Flash events. It takes all of 1 minute to install and seems to be working great. If you’re a Google Analytics user and want full referring URLs – check out the fix at Reuben’s blog.
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Nice find Chris and good job Reuben. I love hacks that save you once wasted time. Give me time anytime.
This annoyed me as well, but Google has fixed it.
Go to:
Traffic Sources
Click on the source you want the full referring URL for.
Click on the Referral path.
Below the chart and above the tabs there’s a link “Visit this referring link”.
Hi,
yes, I am agree with aaron that google has updated it..now google analytics is giving new features also…It is good but surely i will test Reuben's
It's much better the rubenyau solution.
I have the same.,