TrueMetriks documentation: Journeys https://docs.truemetriks.com/dashboard/journeys/ Generated from the TrueMetriks documentation. Paste the whole of this file into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor or any other AI. I use TrueMetriks, a server-side tracking and conversion attribution platform. It tracks my website visitors, ties every sale back to the ad that produced it, and sends those conversions back to my ad platforms. Help me with this specific task: Journeys. The Journeys page shows the real paths visitors take through your site, page by page, as a left-to-right flow that reveals the routes ending in a sale. HOW TO GUIDE ME - This file has three parts: THE GUIDE is today's task, BACKGROUND is a prerequisite to confirm with me before you start THE GUIDE, not optional reading, and LINK MAP is the only place a real link comes from. - Ask me ONE thing at a time and wait for my answer before moving on. - At the start of every step, ask me: "do you want the written steps, or the video?" If I pick the video, give me the exact link from the LINK MAP at the bottom and wait until I tell you I have watched it. If I pick the written steps, give them to me from this file. - Only ever give me links that appear in the LINK MAP below. Never invent a URL, never guess an anchor, and if I ask for something that has no link here, say so and point me at https://docs.truemetriks.com/ instead. - Never ask me for my password, my API key, my MCP key, or any card details. You are reading me the steps; I am the one clicking in my own account. - Confirm each step worked before starting the next one. - Keep it short. I am doing this while looking at my screen, not reading an essay. - Everything you need is in this file. You do not need to browse the web. =============================================================================== THE GUIDE: Journeys https://docs.truemetriks.com/dashboard/journeys/ =============================================================================== ## What you are looking at Every visitor takes a path: they land somewhere, click through a few pages, and either convert or leave. Journeys stacks those paths on top of each other and draws the result as a flow that reads left to right. - Each **colored bar is a page** on your site (its URL path). - The columns are **steps in sequence**: Step 1 is the page visitors were on, Step 2 is where they went next, and so on. - Each **ribbon is a group of visitors** moving from one page to the next. The thicker the ribbon, the more visitors took that hop. Hover any bar or ribbon to see the exact visit count and what share of all journeys it represents. So instead of guessing how people reach your checkout, you watch the actual traffic flow into it. ## Reading a journey Pull any single thread out of the board and it reads like a sentence: this page, then this page, then this one. Here are three routes from the same site: The first route is the money path - home to a course page to checkout to the thank-you page. The second is people who price-shop first and then book a call. The third skips the homepage entirely because the visitor landed straight on a lead page from an ad. Seeing them side by side tells you which entry points actually carry visitors toward a sale. ## Controls - **Steps** - the slider sets how many hops to show, from 2 up to 6. Two steps answers "where do people go from each page"; more steps follows longer routes deeper into the site. - **Journeys** - the second slider caps how many distinct paths are drawn, from 10 up to 200. Keep it low for the clearest, highest-volume routes; raise it to see the long tail. - **Date range** - the period picker (top right) scopes the board to a window, for example the last 60 days. - **Filter** - the standard filters (country, device, browser, referrer, and so on) narrow the board to a segment, so you can compare how, say, mobile visitors flow differently from desktop. ## Filtering to a specific path Each step has its own **Path filter** box. Type a URL path into one and the board only shows journeys that passed through that page at that step, which is how you answer a specific question instead of reading the whole map. Two wildcards make the filters flexible: - `*` matches a **single** path segment. `/course/*` matches `/course/bp-w-v1` and `/course/semsccsbe`, but not `/course/bp-w-v1/lesson-2`. - `**` matches **multiple** segments. `/checkout/**` matches `/checkout/book`, `/checkout/gmiplzk`, and anything deeper under `/checkout/`. For example, put `/checkout/**` in the last step and Journeys shows only the routes that ended at a checkout page - the exact paths that lead to a sale, and how many visitors each one carried. ## What it is good for - Find the dominant route into checkout, and double down on the pages that feed it. - Spot detours - pages where visitors loop back or wander off instead of moving forward. - See which landing pages actually carry traffic toward a booking versus which just bounce. - Compare segments (set a Filter) to see if paid, mobile, or international visitors travel a different path. To follow one specific person's activity rather than the aggregate flow, open their profile from [Users](https://docs.truemetriks.com/docs/dashboard/users/) instead. =============================================================================== LINK MAP Use these exact URLs. Anything ending in a # anchor opens on that section or that video. Nothing else is a valid link. Never invent a URL and never guess an anchor. Journeys The guide ................................... https://docs.truemetriks.com/dashboard/journeys/ What you are looking at ..................... https://docs.truemetriks.com/dashboard/journeys/#what-you-are-looking-at Reading a journey ........................... https://docs.truemetriks.com/dashboard/journeys/#reading-a-journey Controls .................................... https://docs.truemetriks.com/dashboard/journeys/#controls Filtering to a specific path ................ https://docs.truemetriks.com/dashboard/journeys/#filtering-to-a-specific-path What it is good for ......................... https://docs.truemetriks.com/dashboard/journeys/#what-it-is-good-for