This, to me, is an absolutely necessary feature for ALL companies wishing to use Hubspot’s reporting and traffic analytics data. What use is it for Hubspot to provide reporting and traffic data if you cannot view it? Most companies these days likely will have sites that are external to Hubspot hosting because very few will desire to rebuild a site (and limit the site experience) just to have it hosted in HS. So we will want to know the traffic metrics for these external domains, for that is a major reason why we are implementing the tracking code on external domains to begin with.
This feature doesn’t require any new data capabilities to be developed, as the tracking already is picking up the source data for external domains. To see for yourself, just click on “Direct Traffic” and then search a particular domain and you will see the correct source split. Unfortunately we just don’t have the capability in the UI to filter the source data (that IS there) by external domains and so we cannot view the source split for other channels beyond direct, like organic and social, etc.
This goes beyond just viewing the sources data in the standard traffic report though… it also prevents us from creating custom reports on these external domains as well. Why should customers pay extra for reporting if we cannot even access the data that is in the data layer? How much support is needed in the community to get such an obvious capability to be implemented?