Can I have multiple goal pages for single funnel process? (posted: 8/8/2008)

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It is possible to have multiple pages represent the goal of a funnel process. Google Analytics allows the use of regular expressions in the 'Goal Web Address' field on the Goals form. For example, let's say I have two pages that I want to associate to a single goal:

http://www.mydomain.com/goal_page_1.html
http://www.mydomain.com/goal_page_2.html

In the Goal, I can use the following regular expression:

^/goal_page_[12].html

All of the fields used to enter a URL for each step in the funnel process will accept a regular expression. Please note that there are a number of regular expressions that will work in the above example.

A note of caution, Google Analytics assumes that a URL in a form filed is a URL and not a regular expression only when it starts with "http:". Otherwise it assumes that it is a regular expression. This means that if you exclude "http:" from the URL in either the goal or web address of a step in the funnel process, you must escape all characters that are used in regular expressions.