Same URL, different titles

[ghnp5]

Hey

How does Matomo handle same URL with different titles for different users?
e.g. “/personal-area”
Title: “Hi, User123!”
Does Matomo split the stats based on the uniqueness of the Title?

And also, if we want to exclude a certain URL parameter, like “?message_id=12345”,
so that the stats for those URLs (e.g. “/private-message”) are all merged together,
but the title differs depending on that “message_id”,
Does Matomo split the stats based on the uniqueness of the Title?

Thank you very much!

[heurteph-ei (Philippe)]

@ghnp5

How does Matomo handle same URL with different titles for different users?
Does Matomo split the stats based on the uniqueness of the Title?

On the page titles based report, you’ll see 2 entries, whereas on page urls based report, you’ll see only 1 entry…
I suggest you change the page title during tracking:

JavaScript API

https://developer.matomo.org/guides/tracking-javascript-guide#custom-page-title

Matomo Tag Manager

Thanks to variables and some configuration on the tag, you should be able to change the page title shown in Matomo statistics

@ghnp5

And also, if we want to exclude a certain URL parameter, like “?message_id=12345”,

In the site settings you can exclude some parameters: