: Different filter settings in report tabs of Google Analytics Custom Reporting? I'm wondering if it's possible to have different filter settings in different report tabs of custom report in Google

@Rambettina238

You cannot have different filter settings in different report tabs of a custom report in Google Analytics.

You can, however, create a Dashboard in the new Google Analytics interface that has a different filter applied to each widget.

I have created an example dashboard here. Browse to the GA profile you would like to add it to, then paste this link:
www.google.com/analytics/web/permalink?type=dashboard&uid=6p26M4W7SCWy0W1bFKvNSQ
It should create two widgets, one named 'Visits to home page' and the other named 'Visits to /[Pp]age/.*'. It's giving nice results for me - let me know if it works for you.

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@Carla537

To use filters you first have to understand profiles.

Multiple profiles can be set up for single site AKA a single tracking code and a filter is used to filter data for 1 profile, a profile can have multiple types of filters but it'll still do something for only 1 profile. Also the filters are re-usable.

You can approach this question in several ways:


You can set up multiple profiles, each with it's own directory filter. However in GA you can't measure only the index site's traffic with clean urls.
You can set up advanced segments. This way you can easily compare statistics. But you still can't measure the index site's traffic if you've got clean urls.
See the Content -> Overview


Using the page exact match can result in some interesting side effects:


It'll show you the statistics of the WHOLE site, as / is the root of the page
Also it can show you the statistics of all the urls which has a / in it

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