Track product pages, then fetch list of ten busiest for external use

[mrcycling (tom)]

I am wondering if there is a way to mark specific pages as product pages for Matomo tracking. Then using PHP (and API?) to fetch a list of the 10 busiest product pages for the past 30 days. Finally use this data to build a most popular product list in the menu.

Thanks and sorry, am a total newbie with both Matomo and setting up analytics in general.

[Lukas (Lukas Winkler)]

Hi,

I think you could use Custom Dimensions to store that additional data and then use segments to create reports just for this subset of pages.

[mrcycling (tom)]

Thanks. How do you call custom dimensions as a segment?

I found customDimensions, added the module, created a dimension, updated our javascript on the webpages. And have tried a few calls and keep getting an error message "not a supported segment’.

[mrcycling (tom)]

After some experimentation, discovered &segment=dimension1==value stops the error messages, but doesn’t seem to actually filter as the returned xml data is the same no matter which value I use. It returns all the pageviews since the customDimension was created only, it does not filter based on the value specified for the customDimension.

[Lukas (Lukas Winkler)]

This might be related to

Filter Page URLs by Segments

Before the Matomo Update v3.12 it was possible to filter Page URLs by segments, e.g. page.url contains /test/filer/url, for reports or the Behaviour/Pages-View. Since 3.12 it doesn’t work anymore. The only way to filter by url is the search function, which isn’t applicable for email reports. Is this a bug or a wanted behaviour? Is there a solution to use this function the usual way? Thanks for your input.

[mrcycling (tom)]

Thanks, looks like using customDimensions will not really do what I had in mind. Using plan B at the moment, fetching data from Matomo, then filtering results against an array of pages, then processing data for the specific pages of interest.