List referer for a specific page

Support & Bugs
1

I am trying to get a list of Referers for a specific page, listing the full URL and and preferably sorted on the number of visitors that accessed the page from that particular refering URL.

From ticket #756 I understand, this can only be accomplished using the API. I have tried this, using something along the lines of this:

https://[…]/index.php/?module=API&token_auth=[…]&method=Referers.getWebsites&expanded=1&idSite=1&period=day&date=today&format=xml&url=https://[…]/specific-page

However, I am not sure what method I should use. The documentation tells me Referers.getWebsites returns referrer websites (along with the full Referrer URL if the parameter &expanded=1 is set). This is not specific for a page it seems, and it lacks the additional variable for url like the one Referers.getKeywordsForPageUrl has.

So, what method should I be using if I want to list the referers for a specific page?

2

You need to “segment” getWebsites only to visitors that have “entered the give page URL ie. entryPageUrl”, using segmentation feature: Segmentation - Compare segments of visitors - Analytics Platform - Matomo

3

That’s seems a viable approach. However:

  1. pageUrl is a valid action for segmentation according to the documentation, but using it gives “Segment ‘pageUrl’ is not a supported segment.”. I am running Piwik version 1.5.1.

  2. I have constructed another URL, as quoted below, but it yields no results. This may be because I am using entryPageUrl instead pageURL because of 1), but I assume I am still doing something else wrong here.

“https://[…]/index.php/?module=API&token_auth=[…]&method=Referers.getWebsites&expanded=1&idSite=1&period=month&date=2011-09-01&format=xml&segment=entryPageUrl==https%3A%2F%2F[…]%2F[…]%2F”

4
  1. pageUrl only works if you use the latest beta (but wait a few days for stable)

for keywords however you only need use entryPageUrl segment

  1. if you definitely have some keywords for your selected entryPageUrl then it should work?
5

Ok, it’s clear why pageUrl is not working.

As for your second comment, I am not sure what “keywords” are about. I am not attempting to get a list of keywords for a specific page. I want to retrieve a list of referring websites (or better yet, pages on those websites) for a particular page. So, what other pages on what websites brought visitors to a particular page on my website?

From the documentation, I presume this would to that trick:

“https://[…]/index.php/?module=API&token_auth=[…]&method=Referers.getWebsites&expanded=1&idSite=1&period=month&date=2011-09-01&format=xml&segment=entryPageUrl==https%3A%2F%2F[…]%2F2011%2F08%2F13%2F[…]%2F”

However, this returns an empty list:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

And that’s it. So, what is it I am overlooking?

6

Try without https ?

To debug, check if URL you are looking up is found in your table piwik_log_action (SELECT * FROM piwik_log_action where name=‘http://ex.com’)

7

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