Our page targeting options allow you to activate specific Insightful features on specific pages of your site. To do this, you can use one of our 6 URL targeting options.

URL Targeting. Page targeting options can be found for Heatmaps by selecting either Visit a specific page or Visit one of multiple similar pages.

Only One Heatmap Can Be Created at a Time

When selecting Visit one of multiple similar pages, a single Heatmap will be created and contain data collected from all pages, overlaid upon a screenshot of one of the targeted pages. To better understand how URL targeting works, it is good to understand what components form a URL:

Each URL match you enter can be one of these five types:

• Simple Match: This is the default match type of the app and is used to target a page on your site, ignoring any query strings and fragments as well as protocol, http vs https, and the presence of 'www' or not.

• Exact Match: Targets a specific URL, including the protocol, which can include a query string and fragment.

• Starts With: Target all pages that have a URL, including the protocol, which starts with the entered text.

• Ends With: Target all pages that have a URL which ends in the entered text.

• Contains: Target all pages which contain the entered text.

• Regular Expression: A regular expression, regex or regexp for short, is a special text string for describing a search pattern.

Let's explore in more detail the different options and how they would work.

1. Simple Match:

This is the default match type and is intended to be used to target a page on your site. The match will be correct if the URL path your visitor is on, matches the URL path you specify.

Note: Query strings and fragments are ignored if entered in the field

Example:

Simple Match - http://www.x.com/pages/

2. Exact Match:

The match will be correct if the URL path, query string and fragment of the URL visitors enter match EXACTLY the ones you specify.
Example:

Exact Match - http://www.x.com/pages/?x=1

3. Starts With:

The match will be correct if the URL your visitor enters starts exactly as you specify it, including the protocol.

Example:

Starts with - http://www.x.com/pages/

4. Ends With:

The match will be correct if the URL your visitor enters ends exactly as you specify it.

Example:

Ends with - pages/

5. Contains:

The match will be correct if the URL your visitor enters contains the text you specified.

Example:

Contains - ?x=1

6. Regular Expressions:

For a detailed explanation of Regular Expressions and usage examples, read our knowledge base article: Using Regular Expressions.