How to Check Your Page Titles in Urchin

Please note that the following article will work with Urchin 5 and 6 however you do need to ensure that your website is using the UTM tracking system. For help on implementing this please contact our sales staff.

Unfortunately the Urchin 6.4 doesn't allow you to locate the URL of the pages in the Content by Titles report. To obtain this requires either a custom report (please call our sales team if you need this) or using a filter to modify how the URLs are displayed in the Content by Titles report.

To create the filter, log into Urchin and then go to Configuration -> Urchin Profiles -> Filter Manager. Click on the "Add" button.

Add the following values:

This filter will append the URL of the page to the page title. If your URLs are dynamic  and use query parameters to generate the page, you will need to use a 2nd filter to append the query parameters to the URL as well. In this case create a second filter with the following settings:

You will then need to apply either the first or both filters to the profile that you want to see this report in. It is important to remember that Urchin applies these filters in order and hence if you do need to use this second filter then it must be applied to the profile before the first filter.

To add the filter to the profile, first click to the "Configuration" link and then on the "Edit" link next to the profile. Once opened click on the "Filters" tab and then add the filter to the profile by clicking on it and then on the arrow icon.

Example 1 – Simple URLs

Example 2 – Dynamic URLs

You will need to process (or reprocess) the data to see the results.

You can now identify duplicate titles by either sorting by the "Page Title" field and viewing the results in Urchin or by exporting the data into a spreadsheet and then using this to sort and modify the data. If you choose the latter you can split the field based on the separator and create a pivot table report in Excel to make identification of duplicate titles easier.