Meaning of "goals by pages" report

katanka · July 26, 2023, 11:48am

Hi
In the ‘Goals by Pages’ report, I’ve noticed decimal goal values. Could anyone clarify how these should be interpreted? Also, is there any correlation between these values and the ‘Page Value’ metric in Google Analytics?
Thanks!
Dieter

heurteph-ei · November 22, 2023, 1:59pm

Hi @katanka
You’re right, it seems this is a bug:

github.com/matomo-org/matomo

[Bug] Error in conversion by page URL calculation

opened 01:57PM - 22 Nov 23 UTC

heurteph-ei

Potential Bug To Triage

### What happened? Source: https://forum.matomo.org/t/meaning-of-goals-by-pages…-report/52485 When going to **Goal** > _**Any goal selected or the overview**_ > **Goals by Pages** > **Page URLs**, the number of conversions is not an integer, whereas it should display the number of conversions per page... Also, the total number of conversion cannot be reached versus the number of conversion by channel... ### What should happen? The number of conversions is not an integer, whereas it should display the number of conversions per page... The sum of conversions by page should be equal to the sum of conversions by channel ### How can this be reproduced? https://demo.matomo.cloud/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index&idSite=1&period=day&date=yesterday#?idSite=1&period=day&date=yesterday&category=Goals_Goals&subcategory=4 ![image](https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/assets/79993552/cc278d11-e154-4ef6-abb2-d4dbeee277ad) Whereas a total of 17 conversions should be displayed: ![image](https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/assets/79993552/0572c738-17a5-441a-a24d-ab32bb409067) ### Matomo major version Matomo 4 ### Matomo minor or patch Version demo.matomo.cloud ### PHP version demo.matomo.cloud ### Server operating system demo.matomo.cloud ### What browsers are you seeing the problem on? _No response_ ### Computer operating system Any ### Relevant log output _No response_ ### Validations - [X] Read our [Contributing Guidelines](https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/blob/5.x-dev/CONTRIBUTING.md). - [X] Follow our [Security Policy](https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/blob/5.x-dev/SECURITY.md). - [X] Check that there isn't already an issue that reports the same bug to avoid creating duplicates. - [X] The provided steps to reproduce is a [minimal reproducible](https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example) of the Bug.

utrautma · November 22, 2023, 2:26pm

Hello @katanka ,

I tried to describe this in more detail in my blog here (in German).
I hope it helps you.
However, I have already reported a bug about it:

github.com/matomo-org/matomo

"Viewed before 'Goal XYZ' rate" is often 0%

opened 01:55PM - 10 Aug 22 UTC

utrautmann

Bug

This issue is related to the new 4.11 feature described here: https://github.c…om/matomo-org/matomo/issues/2030#issuecomment-928878139 ## Expected Behavior The "Viewed before _Goal XYZ_ rate" should "The ratio of conversions of _Goal XYZ_ where this page was viewed prior to converting." My understanding is that "was viewed prior to converting" means "was viewed **in the visit** prior to converting." I hope this is right. ## Current Behavior I found a lot of page urls that were in the visit before the conversion and have now a"Viewed before a rate" of 0% and can't explain me this zero value. See this screenshot please. This goal has 54 conversions. The red marked page url has 22.64 conversions but 0% view prior rate. ![grafik](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25771066/183918498-fbb68199-b954-4fa2-b6de-eafd3860783a.png)

Regards
Udo