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by markosaric 1929 days ago
Plausible can actually do that and we have the same exact use case showing in our live demo (filtering by /blog/ only and allowing filtering per blog post). See https://plausible.io/plausible.io and click on "Visit /blog*" in the Goal Conversion section.

(I'm the co-founder of Plausible)

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It does not. I used /blog/ as an example because it’s what Plausible has. But no sub-sites of /blog/ are listed, for example /blog/growing-saas-mrr.
Look into the Top Pages report on the linked page for the full list of all blog posts ranked by popularity. Click on the individual post to filter the dashboard by traffic to that post only.
I guess what Semaphor is saying is that there is no nesting. Taking a look at "docs" as an example, you have these entries in "Top Pages" from https://plausible.io/plausible.io:

- /docs/self-hosting 4.1k 5.7k 67%

- /docs/ 2.1k 2.7k 30%

- /docs 1.6k 2.1k 15%

- /docs/self-hosting-configuration 1.2k 1.8k 57%

You have to select "/docs/self-hosting" directly, and once you done that, you don't see the subpages of that page anymore. If you select "/docs" you only see docs, not "/docs" + subpages so you can see the most popular blogpost and only pages under "/docs"

We haven't set it for our docs on the live demo but we have set it up for /blog this exact use case. On our live demo scroll all the way down to Goal Conversions and click on "Visit /blog*". This gives you a filtered dashboard and on that filtered dashboard if you look at the Top Pages report you will see only the blog posts ranked by popularity and no other content that's outside of the /blog.
Ah, now I understand. Seems a bit convoluted, but then so is almost everything in GA ;)
Agree. This started as a feature for our custom events/goals as people wanted to see conversions on dynamically generated checkout pages for ecommerce. But turns out it is useful for the use cases we're discussing here too so we plan to make it easier to discover/work with in the future.