Weird Analytics Question
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Looking at a Google Analytics report for a client - Traffic Sources - Referrals - Landing Pages from one particular referrer. This one referral site is a large trade directory that links onto several deep pages of the site, but also links onto the homepage. Analytics is showing the one landing page as //index.html. That's 2 // - not one. If you click on the link, it's a 404.
I've never seen this in Analytics before. I'm looking at the client's info on this trade directory site and I can't see a link that points to this 404. The majority of incoming traffic from this site is apparently coming to this //index.html page, so you'd think it would be coming from their main profile on the site. But it's not there. Also, if you had all this referral traffic coming to a 404, you'd expect a really high bounce rate, but it's not - it's average. The client also has a sister site also listed in this directory, and I'm not seeing this same issue in their Analytics.
Is this just some weird glitch in Analytics?
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Perfect. Thanks!
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I've seen this happen before - Is the "Default page" setting in Google Analytics being used? If yes, is there a "/" at the front of the Default page setting? My hunch is that the default page setting is set to "/index.html" or just "/". If that is the case, simply remove the slash and it should work.
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