Question about long landing pages addresses reported in Shopify

Technical Q&A
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Today I received a lot of visits to my site that show up as arriving on these long-strings of address line. When I go to my site, it looks like I only see the first part of the URL, ending with the .com.

I don’t know where the additional code comes from. I often see these long strings in my Google Analytics and on my Shopify reporting, but I’m stumped as to how to decipher what they mean.

I do put UTM code elements on my Ads, so does that code get pulled into the address code?

Can someone help me understand what all the scrambled letters mean?

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gclid and wbraid are url parameters used for tracking

https://www.google.com/search?q=gclid+wbraid+url+parameters

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Hi,

Thank you for replying. So then, does that mean if there is a GCLID or WBRAID in the string that identifies “this is the page on your site that the person visited” it means that the person got there by clicking a (WHAT??) if GCLID) and a (WHAT??) if a WBRAID ?

Both of these appear in place of a GCLID (that would appear if the person came to the landing page from a Google ad and allowed IOS tracking) but has instead opted out of IOS tracking)?

It’s a little complicated.

Thanks for clarifying,

Roland