Referring urls in Google Analytics are stripped from query parameters. This makes it hard to know e.g. what thread a referral came from, since that information is typically contained in the referrer’s query parameters. There exists a couple of workarounds to the problem, which a Norweigan blogger has improved upon.

The final remedy is to edit the analytics account and add a filter. The filter should have the following settings:

Filter Type

Custom filter, select Advanced

Field A -> Extract A

Referral: (.*)

Field B -> Extract B

Campaign Medium: (^referral$)|(^organic$)

Output To -> Constructor

Campaign Content: $A1

Field A Required

Yes

Field B Required

Yes

Override Output Field

Yes