Strange landing page in Google Analytics

[Johnroger]

Hello MOZ Community,

The website in question is https://x-y.com/

When i looked at the landing pages report in GA , x-y.com is appended at the end of every URL like this.

https://x-y.com/x-y.com

When i open the above URL in GA interface, it shows page not found. This is obvious as there is no such URL.
The metrics like sessions, Users, Bounce rate all look good.

In the property settings, The default URL is written like this

http:// cell-gate.com

(Please note that s is missing in property settings). But how is traffic tracked correctly

How do i solve this problem. What settings should we change to make the landing pages report look ok

Thanks

[Johnroger]

Thanks for the reply.

I guess we should leave the default settings blank, as site can be accessed by only one URL.

Thanks

[effectdigital]

The default URL is what you should change. It is the setting which controls how the landing pages are written in the GA interface. It is necessarry because Google Analytics (STILL) does not track protocol (only hostname and page paths, which is really annoying!)

If GA would just track protocol, all of this could be handled for you automatically. Since that's not the case, you have to amend this property setting