GA report shows clicks on 404 url with weird / appendix

  • Resolved marcinayaadmin

    (@marcinayaadmin)


    2 years, 5 months ago

    Within Google Analytics report, I see that vast majority of traffic hits 404 error with url [ redundant link removed ]

    This is obviously not a backlink I manually input anywhere.

    How do I find out the source of this i.e. where are visitors clicking which takes them to this 404 url? Is there a known cause of why normal url would be transformed like this?

    Found some references to Yoast SEO transforming urls into /%E2%80%8E, but it does not cause 404 and this is different.

    Any help is much appreciated.

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    The “%E2” type of URL content happens when URLs with non-Latin characters (or Latin with diacritics) are encoded for maximum compatibility across the internet. They would normally still lead to appropriate pages. Going 404 means the original link was in error.

    I don’t regularly use GA, but there should be referrer information available for each record. I’m unsure how to see it in GA, but it’s what you’re looking for. You can also usually see referrer information in the server’s access logs. Log visibility and content is usually managed by your host, so what’s available could vary.

    Thread Starter marcinayaadmin

    (@marcinayaadmin)

    Hi,

    Thanks alot. It turns out I have put emoji straight after a link in FB post and it took it as part of the url so was throwing 404.

    All resolved now it seems.

    Thanks again.

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