User Journeys, Conversion Funnels & Attribution Tracking

See the exact paths visitors take through your site, define the conversions that matter, measure step-by-step funnel drop-off, and trace every conversion back to the short link and campaign that drove it, down to the revenue it produced.

Attribution flow

Clicks

2,480

68% click → visit

Visits

1,686

9.2% visit → conversion

Conversions

155

$4,820 attributed revenue

Website Analytics tells you what happened on your site. User Journeys, Goals, Funnels, and Attribution tell you why it matters: which paths visitors actually take, which of those paths end in a conversion, where they drop off along the way, and which short link or campaign the paying customer originally clicked.

These four reports sit on top of the same Website Analytics data you're already collecting, no separate tracking script or extra setup. You define what a conversion means for your site once, and journeys, funnels, and attribution all build on that definition automatically.

They're available on Growth, Pro, and Business. Free and Starter plans see a locked preview card in their place, since this kind of analysis needs enough traffic and history to be meaningful.

Four Reports, One Connected Picture

Each report answers a different question, and they're designed to be read together rather than in isolation.

User Journeys

See the actual page-by-page paths visitors take through your site as a flow diagram, with no goals or funnels to configure first.

Conversion Goals

Define what counts as a conversion for your site: a custom event, a specific page reached, or a revenue-generating action.

Funnels

Turn a goal, or a sequence of pages, into a named, ordered funnel and see exactly where sessions drop off between steps.

Attribution

Connect the dots all the way back to the click: which short links and campaigns actually produced conversions and revenue, not just visits.

User Journeys: See the Paths Visitors Actually Take

User Journeys work without any setup. As soon as you have traffic, UseClick builds a flow diagram of how visitors move through your site, so you can spot common paths, dead ends, and unexpected detours before you've defined a single goal.

A Sankey-Style Flow Diagram

The diagram shows the first two to five pages of each visit as a branching flow: the entry page on the left, then each subsequent page visitors land on, with the width of each connecting band sized to how many sessions took that path. Alongside the diagram, a ranked Top Paths list surfaces the most common page sequences as a plain table, for when you just want the numbers without reading the flow.

How Sessions Are Built

30-Minute Session Window

A visit stays grouped into a single session as long as the visitor keeps browsing within 30 minutes of their last page view. A longer gap starts a new session.

First Two to Five Pages

Each path in the diagram covers the first two to five pages of a session, enough to show the shape of a visit without the diagram collapsing under long-tail sessions.

Reloads Collapsed

Refreshing the same page repeatedly doesn't create a new node or inflate the path; reloads collapse into the single page node they belong to.

Bots Excluded

Known bot and crawler traffic is filtered out before journeys are built, so the diagram reflects real visitor behavior, not indexing activity.

Long-Tail Paths Grouped

Paths beyond the most common ones are grouped into a single "(other)" node instead of each getting its own thin, unreadable branch.

Top Paths

Next to the diagram, a ranked Top Paths list shows the same underlying data as plain page sequences with session counts, so you can quote a specific path, like Home → Pricing → Checkout, without reading it off the diagram.

Conversion Goals: Define What a Conversion Means

A goal is the atomic unit everything else builds on. Create one per website, and it becomes available to funnels and attribution automatically.

Three Goal Types

Custom Event

Fires when a JavaScript event you send from your site matches the event name you define, for actions like a form submission or a button click that never triggers a page load.

Pageview Match

Fires when a visitor reaches a URL pattern you specify, like /thank-you or /confirmation, with no code changes required beyond the page existing.

Revenue

Fires like a custom event, but also captures a dollar amount with each conversion, so the goal contributes to revenue totals, not just a conversion count.

Active, Paused, or Deleted

Every goal can be toggled active or paused without losing its history, so you can temporarily stop counting a goal, during a site redesign for example, and resume later. Deleting a goal removes it going forward; pause a goal instead if it's used by a funnel you want to keep intact.

Total vs. Attributed Conversions

Each goal reports its total conversion count alongside the subset attributed to a specific short-link click, plus a running revenue total for revenue-type goals, so you can see both overall conversion volume and the portion you can trace back to a marketing link.

Funnels: Measure Step-by-Step Drop-off

A funnel turns a sequence you care about, like Landing Page → Signup → Checkout, into a named report that shows exactly how many sessions made it through each step.

Building a Funnel

Name the funnel and add between two and six steps in order. Each step is either a page, matched by URL, or an existing goal event, and goal-event steps autocomplete from the goals you've already created, so you're never retyping an event name by hand.

Mixing page and goal steps in the same funnel is normal: for example, Pricing page viewed → "start_trial" event fired → /welcome pageview.

7, 30, or 90-Day Windows

Once built, a funnel shows the number and percentage of sessions that reached each step, with per-step drop-off between them, over a 7, 30, or 90-day window you choose. Comparing windows shows you whether a recent redesign or campaign change improved or hurt a specific step.

What It's Good For

Funnels are the tool for finding exactly where you're losing people: a signup form with a confusing field, a pricing page that doesn't convert, or a checkout step that's leaking sessions before payment. Because steps can be pages or goals interchangeably, you can build funnels around either what people saw or what they did.

Attribution: From Click to Revenue

Attribution is what actually ties a specific short link back to a paying conversion, not just a pageview. It's the report that answers the question every other one only gets close to: which links made money?

The Clicks → Visits → Conversions Flow

Attribution renders as a flow chart with three stages: short-link clicks, the visits those clicks became, and the conversions those visits produced. Two rates sit between the stages, a click-to-visit rate and a visit-to-conversion rate, so you can see immediately whether a problem is happening before the visit even starts (a broken link, a slow landing page) or after it (a page that doesn't convert).

What's in the Report

Click-to-Visit Rate

The share of short-link clicks that turned into a recorded visit.

Visit-to-Conversion Rate

The share of visits that went on to complete any tracked goal.

Attributed Revenue

The total dollar value from revenue-type goals that trace back to a tracked click.

Per-Goal Breakdown

Below the flow, attribution splits out by individual goal, so you can see, for example, that your "newsletter_signup" goal converts at a very different rate than your "purchase_complete" goal, instead of one blended number.

Top-Converting Links

A ranked table of your best-performing short links by conversions and revenue, so instead of guessing which campaign worked, you can point at the exact link.

Attribution reads directly off the UTM parameters and campaign grouping you're already using, so it's worth pairing with UseClick's UTM Builder for consistent tagging and Campaigns for grouping related links, both of which feed straight into the per-goal and top-links breakdowns above.

Why This Matters More Than Pageviews

Most analytics tools stop at the visit: how many people came, how long they stayed, what they looked at. That's useful, but it doesn't answer the question a marketer or founder actually cares about, which link, which campaign, which channel produced a paying customer.

Because UseClick's link shortener and Website Analytics share the same visitor tracking, attribution can connect a specific short-link click to a specific conversion without a separate tag manager, a CRM integration, or manual UTM matching in a spreadsheet. It's built in, not bolted on.

Journeys, Goals, Funnels, and Attribution live inside Website Analytics, alongside the full traffic, geography, device, and channel reporting described there.

Plan Availability

Because journeys, funnels, and attribution need enough traffic and history to be statistically meaningful, they're reserved for plans built around ongoing measurement rather than a first look at basic traffic.

Growth, Pro & Business

User Journeys, Conversion Goals, Funnels, and Attribution are fully available, per website, with no additional setup beyond defining your goals.

Free & Starter

These plans see a locked upsell card in place of the live reports on the Website Analytics dashboard, so you know what's available and can upgrade when you're ready to measure conversions rather than just traffic.

From Setup to Insight

A practical order for turning on all four reports.

1. Watch Journeys

Start with User Journeys, which need no setup, to see the paths visitors already take and spot the ones worth turning into a funnel.

2. Define Goals

Create the custom-event, pageview-match, or revenue goals that represent a real conversion for your site.

3. Build a Funnel

String two to six page or goal steps together to see exactly where sessions drop off between them.

4. Read Attribution

Check the Clicks → Visits → Conversions flow and the top-converting links table to see which links and campaigns are actually paying off.

Frequently Asked Questions

User Journeys show the actual paths visitors take across your site as a flow diagram, no setup required. Goals are conversions you define, like a signup event or a checkout pageview. Funnels measure step-by-step drop-off across a defined sequence of pages or goals. Attribution connects the whole chain, from a link click through to a visit and on to a conversion, including revenue, so you can see which links and campaigns actually pay off.

Each visit is grouped into a 30-minute session, and the first two to five pages of that session become one path through the diagram. Page reloads collapse into a single node instead of repeating, bot traffic is excluded from the count, and paths past the top ones are grouped into an "(other)" node so the diagram stays readable instead of turning into hundreds of thin threads.

Three types: a custom-event goal fires on a JavaScript event you send from your site, a pageview-match goal fires when a visitor reaches a URL pattern you specify, like /thank-you, and a revenue goal captures a dollar value alongside the conversion so you get revenue totals, not just a count. Each goal can be toggled active or paused, or deleted, without losing its historical data.

A funnel can have between two and six steps. Each step is either a page (matched by URL) or a goal event you've already created, and goal-event steps autocomplete from your existing goals so you're not retyping event names. UseClick then shows session drop-off between each step over a 7, 30, or 90-day window.

It's a Clicks → Visits → Conversions flow: how many short-link clicks became visits (click-to-visit rate), and how many of those visits completed a goal (visit-to-conversion rate). Alongside that flow you get total attributed revenue, a breakdown per individual goal, and a table of your top-converting links, so you can trace a conversion back to the specific short link that drove it, not just the pageview that happened to follow.

These four are available on Growth, Pro, and Business. Free and Starter plans see a locked upsell card in their place on the website analytics dashboard instead of the live reports.

UTM tracking and campaign grouping tell you which channel sent the traffic. Attribution goes one step further and ties that same click all the way through to a completed goal and its revenue, so you're measuring paying outcomes per link and per campaign, not just visit volume per source.