Search and Replace filter on Google Analytics?

[AGILITY]

Hello!

On our GA account for one of our clients, we'd like to add a search and replace filter to the Views section of the account. The URL is www.askergoworks.com (it redirects to askergoworks.com), and Google has flagged us to have redundant hostnames. This is why we'd like to add the filter.

Would the regular expression be askergoworks.com|www.askergoworks.com    ?

Any help would be great - I'm not a regex expert, so I really don't how to go about this.

Thanks!

[LoganRay]

No problem!

[AGILITY]

Perfect! Thanks again for the help!

[LoganRay]

Just saw your update: Yes, only enter ^www.

[LoganRay]

I would go ahead and do that after you apply the filter. Google reporting is based on the URI string, so this won't cause any data loss.

[AGILITY]

Hi Logan,

Thanks for your help - Are you saying I should replace it to non-www. now? Or is this just for future reference when I set up accounts? I hesitate to do this with this account because I don't want to lose any data...

And when you mean ^www.   I don't put the rest of the address after that, correct?

Thanks!

[LoganRay]

Hi,

Take the following steps:

1. Choose Search and Replace
2. Enter ^www\. for the search string
3. Leave 'Replace String' blank

Going forward, it's actually much simpler than that, all you need to do is go to Admin > Property Settings > Default URL. Change it to the non-www version and you're good to go!