Why does Google Analytics do this?

Check out the “Referral Path”… if you can’t see it click on the image for a bigger view. The path in incomplete! Analytics reports /forum/viewtopic.php but that’s wrong. It should be something like /forum/viewtopic.php?t=threadId.

I like visiting referring sites and seeing what they’re saying about my site. There’s links to some BC Rich guitars for sale on The BC Rich Players Forums and I’d really like to see the context in which my site was mentioned.

So, to figure out what they’re saying about my lil site I have to go to the forum, sign up, wait for the admin to approve my registration, finally login, search the threads & finally check out what they’re saying.

Why do they chop of the query string? Without it some of these referral URL’s become 100% useless. Bleh