Ability to set a custom segment as default #5125

When creating a custom segment, it would be helpful to implement the ability to set that as the loaded-on-default segment.
Keywords: segment

Interesting.

Should this feature be only available if the segment is also "cron generated" ?

If not, on installation with 50k pageviews a day, Piwik will have to work a lot before showing any data.

I'm just wondering.

Dali

Good thinking!

Cron generated.

Great idea!

I think this could be done in a plugin:

• New setting to choose which segment to load by default
• When Piwik is loaded, the plugin could automatically redirect to the segment to load by default, if one was set by the user.

from email:

This feature is great but please allow us to set up a default segment for each websites and/or
that the UI remember the previous one when we switch from one website to another.

anyway your product is really good. I use it for a few years and it becomes better and better after each updates. Thank you!

Hi there,
I recently got a demand about it recently. The need is the following one, the Matomo account is shared between an agency and a client. The internal traffic of the agency is going within the account which is increasing artificially the visits. As the account is in a cloud they cannot install the invalidate reports plugin to delete their traffic. So they need a segment applied by default which will remove their traffic.

@NanorPiwik if the agency has a static IP address, you could als exclude the traffic using an ip exclusion

Wouldn't the cookie exclusion work as well?

Wouldn't the cookie exclusion work as well?

But that's something everyone needs to do on his machine in every browser (and do it again after clearing cookies)

I was also hoping for a way to set a default segment.

I am logging all traffic (including robots) it is useful when trying to see how often things are happening, etc.

I have a segment that is fairly effective at removing bots and my traffic, it looks like this:

Browser > Is not > Unknown
and
Operating system > is not > Uknown
and
Visitor IP > Not Equals > (My IP that I want to exclude)
and
Visitor IP > Not Equals > (My other IP that I want to exclude)

Currently I use a bookmark to open straight to this segment, but it would be great if I could just set it as the default.