Can a Goal funnel contain gaps or random user activity?

Discussion in 'Google Analytics' started by neek, Aug 12, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hi all,

    We have a working GA setup on our site, and working Goals with known URL sequences, e.g.

    http://www.oursite.com/index.php?main_page=checkout_1
    http://www.oursite.com/index.php?main_page=checkout_2
    http://www.oursite.com/index.php?main_page=checkout_final

    Easy. Now, we have a form that external traffic arrives on, and we would like to know how many visitors to that form go on to buy something. So the funnel would look like:

    http://www.oursite.com/index.php?main_page=form_fillin
    http://www.oursite.com/index.php?main_page=form_submitted
    <random browsing/shopping>
    http://www.oursite.com/index.php?main_page=checkout_1
    http://www.oursite.com/index.php?main_page=checkout_2
    http://www.oursite.com/index.php?main_page=checkout_final

    How can GA be used to define such a funnel? Or is there some other mechanism that should be used to track a purchase by a customer who originally landed on our site at the form_fillin page?

    I've looked around the GA documentation, but Goals all seem to be a fixed number of known URL's (albeit with wildcards), and I'm trying to get statistics on a sequence that is not a fixed number of URL's.

    Thanks :)
    Nick
     
    neek, Aug 12, 2010 IP