How to modify page URL in Google Analytics

Question

How can you modify the URL for the current page that gets passed to Google Analytics?

(I need to strip the extensions from certain pages because for different cases a page can be requested with or without it and GA sees this as two different pages.)

For example, if the page URL is http://mysite/cake/ilikecake.html, how can I pass to google analytics http://mysite/cake/ilikecake instead?

I can strip the extension fine, I just can't figure out how to pass the URL I want to Google Analytics. I've tried this, but the stats in the Google Analytics console don't show any page views:

pageTracker._trackPageview('cake/ilikecake');

Thanks, Mike

Answer 1

You could edit the GA profile and add custom filters ...

Create a 'Search and Replace' custom filter, setting the filter field to 'Request URI' and using something like:

Search String: (.*ilikecake\.)html$

Replace String: $1
(was \1)