By default, GA4 shows you only the request URL of the pages, which is the part of the URL after the domain name.
For example, if the full URL of a page is "http://www.example.com/foldername/page.html" , then the request URI is "/foldername/page.html".
However, you may want to see the full page URL in your reports in order to:
- Compare how different domains or subdomains perform on your site
- See which campaign parameters are attached to your URLs
- Identify duplicate or similar pages with different URLs
- Filter or segment your data by domain name
In this case, you can create a new report to view the full-page URLs in Google Analytics 4.
A Step-by-Step Guide to See Full-Page URLs in Google Analytics 4
In this step-by-step guide, you will learn how to track full-page URLs using Exploration in GA4.
Follow along to discover how you can create an exploration report to view full-page URLs:
Navigate to Google Analytics 4 > "Explore"
Click the plus icon to create a new exploration report
Name your report "Full Page URLs", and then set the date range to the "Last 30 days"
Click the plus icon next to "Dimensions" to start adding dimensions to your report
Search for "Page location" and add it to your report by clicking the checkbox and then "Import"
Click the plus button next to "Metrics" to start adding metrics to your report
Search for metrics "Views", "Sessions", and "Engaged Sessions" and add them all to your report
Double-click "Page location" to add it to the "Rows section"
Double-click "Views", "Sessions", and "Engaged sessions" one by one to add these metrics to the report
You can now see the full-page URLs in Google Analytics 4 along with the dimensions and metrics added
Pages and screens reports in GA4 also provides reports with page URLs but you can't view full page URLs within this report.
