Facebook Parameters

  • Resolved Steve

    (@lightai)


    4 years, 2 months ago

    We are using URL Shortify to create friendly URLs that resolve to include a parameter used to track who referred the visitor to our page. For example, https://light.ai/facebook is used on our Facebook page.

    Recently Facebook themselves started appending the URL with their own parameter called “FBCLID”. The Facebook parameter is then assigned a unique tracking ID that they use. Here’s an example with our link embedded in there…

    https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flight.ai%2Ffacebook%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR08g5Wr_kuqB3tZjA-L-x0_sPT9u8ZFqDz05Uk3nrf0SUILMLv3-NMITuE&h=AT10gzHFni9S1-C2z6Dau9h3moXHP7EBFmL-SoNsRG8aZbv41DyaTVQjntHMNBp0frpFjnO7vfKI53tHcSYxe6dtmimJbu83ibb9p-mi55L90cGw4V0cygbhK9p_6v4mYALc2gjtqg&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT1jqOQMAa4rBui0Lf8SDYleNRoM_XslcuvOUSdaIJLqfs88686_B5HSX-KMhsD8egL-O3WNp99Se5_ZeaBiZzOFCFF9InbYUtkG0SI_gt334HziqoPb3qXBAVugSjwt1Ydz4CHRokAoo6R0oo5UrLg3ftGuNyE6VgDyZZmQtzvqggkDm_F0Y3jqVx8rk3o

    When the URL Shortify plugin resolves the URL, it appends the Facebook parameter and corrupts our analytics and reporting.

    Is it possible to have URL Shortify strip the additional Facebook URL parameter?

    Here’s an article that shows how to resolve the problem for Google Analytics by including an optional “Exclude URL Query Parameters” setting,,,

    https://www.glowmetrics.com/blog/what-is-fbclid-how-to-remove-fbclid-parameter-from-google-analytics/

    Something like this would be helpful.

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  • Plugin Author KaizenCoders

    (@kaizencoders)

    Hi Steve,

    Thanks for contacting us.

    Just want to update you that there is an option to disable parameter forwarding in URL Shortify.

    Did you try that? Will it work for you? Or you want to forward other parameters except facebook specific parameters.

    Thread Starter Steve

    (@lightai)

    Thanks for your reply.

    Yes, disabling parameter forwarding will work for the time being.

    As you pointed out, there are scenarios where we need to maintain our own parameters while stripping off any that have been appended by third-parties, such as Facebook.

    Having the option to exclude specific parameters would be a welcome feature. In fact, an option to specify which parameter to “include” may be a better solution, since we would define our own parameters, while others are unknown until discovered after the fact.

    Plugin Author KaizenCoders

    (@kaizencoders)

    Hi Steve,

    Thanks for your feedback.

    We have noted down your feedback and will be incorporated in one of the upcoming releases of URL Shortify.

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