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Journeys

/dashboard/<siteId>/journeys — the shape of how people move through the site.

The flow

Section titled “The flow”

Columns of nodes with ribbons between them. Each column is one step away from the anchor, and every visit appears in every column: once a visit is over, the boundary node (Exit going forward, Session start going backward) is repeated to the edge of the diagram. That is what keeps each column’s total equal to the number of visits, and gives the ribbons somewhere to land instead of stopping mid-picture.

Node kinds:

Kind Meaning
Page A pageview, labelled with the path
Event A custom, outbound or revenue event, labelled with its name. Only with Custom events on
Exit / Session start The visit boundary
Other Everything outside the top 6 at that step, kept so the column still adds up

Six nodes per column, plus Other and the boundary.

Controls

Section titled “Controls”
Control Parameter Values
Start at / Ends at start path:/pricing or event:signup_completed. Absent means “Any page”
Where next / What led here direction forward (default), backward
Steps depth 3–6, default 4
Custom events events 1 to include, otherwise off

The anchor is the visit’s first occurrence of that page or event. With no anchor, the flow starts at each visit’s first hit.

Going backward, the anchor is the last column, so both directions render left-to-right and the final hop is always into the page you asked about.

How filters apply

Section titled “How filters apply”

Filters pick the visits; the flow then walks those visits in full.

Applying a filter to the rows instead would delete exactly the steps around the match — which is the one thing a flow diagram exists to show. So filtering to country=DE gives you the complete journeys of German visitors, not the German fragments of everyone’s journeys.

Clicking the diagram

Section titled “Clicking the diagram”
Action Effect
Click a node Re-anchors the flow on it — sets start
Shift-click a node, or its list icon Opens Sessions filtered to it

The Sessions link chooses the filter that matches what the node means: event for an event node, entryPath for the first column of an un-anchored forward flow, and path for everything else. The journey-specific parameters are dropped on the way.

Top routes

Section titled “Top routes”

The whole page routes visits take, most common first, up to ten. Pages only — an event anchor does not consume a step. Per row:

  • the sequence of paths, up to depth;
  • visits and the share of the flow they represent;
  • exits — visits that ended on the last page of the route.

Each route links into Sessions, filtered on its first page (path when the flow is anchored, entryPath when it is not).

Page explorer

Section titled “Page explorer”

For one page, counted per view rather than per visit:

Figure Meaning
Views Views of the page in range — the denominator for every share
Entrances Views that started the visit
Exits Views that ended the visit
Previous What was viewed immediately before, up to 8
Next What was viewed immediately after, up to 8

Clicking a neighbour re-anchors the flow on it.

URL parameters

Section titled “URL parameters”
Parameter Values Default
range the nine range keys 30d
all 26 filter keys see Filters none
start path:<value> or event:<value> none
direction forward, backward forward
depth 3, 4, 5, 6 4
events 1 off

Anything before the first : in start that is not event is read as path. depth is clamped into 3–6 rather than rejected.

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