Www-prefix: yes/no or show both?

Support & Bugs
1

Just a little question:

When adding a site, I have to specify its own URL. Now there are a lot of sites which can be reached through both URLs:

http://www.mysite.com/
http://mysite.com/

So do I have to add both URLs to this textbox or does Piwik omit the www on its own or is this only a convenience box and Piwik only uses the siteId ?

Cheers,
-mARKUS

2

piwik currently records data for all domains, so this information is not useful for this.
It is used to know when a URL is “referer” or “direct entry” on the first page view.

3

Thanks for the explanation. So I’ll just add both URLs into the field. :slight_smile:

Cheers,
-mARKUS

4

Related to this - is there a way to display which url they used for direct entry?

5

No, and even if there were, it wouldn’t be reliable as it wouldn’t know about 302 redirects, rewriteurl, or CNAMEs.