Hey Ryan! The reverse goal path report shows you the 3-4 pages immediately before the goal, this report is intended to show you the contribution of all pages regardless of where they were in the flow.

How would you compare this method w/ using the Reverse Goal Path report to see the pages that led to conversion?

Thanks!

Ryan

It's really a decision on your end, to weigh the setup and planning time of implementing new code vs. the manual work of setting up individual segments. If it's just 10, then it probably only takes you about 45 mins to create and view your segments, so that could be your baseline for comparison.
Also, since I'm not sure of your reporting requirements, it's totally possible there are better / simpler solutions than those mentioned above. For example, in many cases it's good enough to look at the landing pages report or the Page Value metric, and neither of those require any extra work at all.

Thanks Ana.
As a ball park what would you describe as a handful of pages? I'd be thinking a quarterly review of 10 to 15 key pages. Appreciate your response.

Hey Brian, I’d just use a segment if you’re just checking on a handful of pages in an ad-hoc manner. Then you don't need to implement anything, and it's totally flexible and easy to set up. If you want to see analyze a lot of pages for conversions, though, then it makes more sense to implement some kind of advanced tracking.  

Thank you! Feedback like this keeps me posting 🙂