When I click an outgoing link from Analytics - why are they all broken?

[ShawnW]

On one of my websites, if I visit the Behavior > Site Content section of Anayltics any link I try to open is broken. Google Analytics is appending the domain before every URL causing it to open in a popup but as a broken link.

Example:

Trying to click a link to a page on the website at this URL:

http://www.thisisanexample.com/test.html

But in the Analytics popup browser this is what it tries to load:

www.thisisanexample.comhttp://www.thisisanexample.com/test.html

So I can't preview any of the content within Google Analytics.

I feel like this is a settings issue somewhere...

Any ideas?

[LoganRay]

Yep, that's the one.

[ShawnW]

By the way, thanks for the help on this!

[ShawnW]

You mean Behavior > Site Content > All Pages?

[LoganRay]

Can you DM me a screenshot of your All Page report view?

[ShawnW]

I tried removing the filter (there was one under Admin > Account > All Filters and one under Admin > View > All Filters) they said Add Hostname to Request URI. But the issue is still occurring. I don't see anything that says Full Page URL in the filters sections. All of the other filters are 'exclude' or 'include'. Am I missing something here or is this possibly another setting?

[LoganRay]

Hi Shawn,

This is happening because you've got the Full Page URL filter engaged in Google Analytics. For some reason, even when you have that filter on, GA appends your domain to the beginning of the URL. Seems to me like they should provision for that with an option to turn it off.

If you turn off this filter, your links will work. If you need to see the domains for analysis, you can do so with a secondary dimension or with an advanced segment.

[ShawnW]

Here is an image with an arrow pointing to what I'm talking about. When you click the button that the arrow is pointing to, the Analytics external link popup opens up and that's where I have a broken link every time.

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