Funnel events

Page view event

The page view event (view:page) must be sent when a user views a page on the site. Sitecore Discover beacon usually sends page visits but if the beacon is absent, then the customer must send this event.

This event is used in:

Overall page view metrics.
Search Ranking based on views.

The following table lists the properties of the page view event:

Name	Type	Description	Value
`type`	string	Required. Type of the event.	`view`
`name`	string	Required. Name of the event.	`page`
`value.context.page.uri`	string	Required. URI of the page that the user visited.	n/a
`value.context.page.title`	string	Optional. The title of the page.	n/a
`value.context.page.referrer`	string	Required if the page URL was clicked from a referrer channel. Channel referrer that led the user to click on this URL. Used to trigger rules based on referrer URL.	n/a
`value.context.page`	object	Required if the site is set up with locale configuration. A page object containing page-specific information, including locale.	n/a

Sample event specification

The following is an example of a page view event object. This example is in the new format, which means it contains a context object.

{
  "type": "view",
  "name": "page",
  "value": {
    "context": {
      "page": {
        "uri": "/rfk/collection/handbags",
        "title": "Handbags",
        "referrer": "https://www.google.com/",
        "locale_country": "<country code, 2 letters, lowercase, e.g. fr>",
        "locale_language": "<language code 2 letters, lowercase, e.g. en>",
        "locale_currency": "<currency code, 3 letters, lowercase, e.g. eur>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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