Comments on: GA Navigation Summary: What do those numbers mean?

By: Robbin Steif

Robbin Steif — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:52:07 +0000

No, they usually won’t. You only get the top ten pages on both sides, and there is some duplication. It is not a great report.

By: Has

Has — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:40:45 +0000

Should the sum of ‘% Clicks’ in previous pages section be equal to that of the ‘Previous Pages %’ labelled just over the table ??

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:04:18 +0000

@Robbin, my observations seem inconsistent with your explanation. Can you clarify?

I have a page with 66 page views. 40.91% go to next pages (not exit). 40.91% of 66 is 27, quite nicely. The percentages in the list of next pages add up to 100%, quite nicely. But the percentages for two of the next pages are 25.00% (.2500*27=6.75), and for 5 of the next pages are 4.17% (.0417*66=1.13). The percentages correspond to fractional pages. This makes no sense.

Suggestion for google (supposing a google employee may be lurking): Display (1) counts of pages as well as percentages, and (2) the total of the next pages figures, and (3) the total of previous pages figures. Provide a continuous detection audit of the figures.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:53:53 +0000

Another nav summary question:
How can the nav summary for a specific page tell me that “x” percentage advance and a funnel visualization report tell me that the percentage along the same path (ie. from point a to point b in both cases) is something totally different and not even close?
I’ve posted more detailed info here as well:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/thread?tid=6d0254410e3c8571&hl=en

By: Anouk

Anouk — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:38:34 +0000

Did you found any solution yet ? Have the same problem!

By: Robbin

Robbin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:55:22 +0000

Emil/Dominic/Martin, that report is just not great. Maybe we need to accept that and move on to other reports…..

By: Emil

Emil — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:30:28 +0000

Same problem as Dominic’s and Martijn’s. I have a page that has 75.29% Bounce Rate and 76.49% Exit but has 0% Exits in Navigation Summary.

Also, under Top Exit Pages it has about 86k exits (21% of Site Total)

Wierd.

By: Grace

Grace — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:21:18 +0000

The information was very helpful.

By: Robbin

Robbin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:11:27 +0000

I feel like one Navigation Summary problem gets fixed and two more spring up. That would be my contribution to “developments….”

By: Martijn van Well

Martijn van Well — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:56:36 +0000

Found this topic via Google having the same question as Dominic.
Has there been any development on that issue?

I now have a page which is used as a landingspage in combination with an Adwords Campaign. With 2.000 pageviews in the selected period a bounce rate of 70%, and 72% exiting the website via this page, the navigation details shows a percentage of 0!

Strangly all the pages have a exitpage of 0% in content detail.

Any idea what causes this?