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title: "Second Preceding Pages"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Second Preceding Pages

**Is part of the pages path analysis and shows the direct preceding pages within the visit.**

Between both pages, no other pages may have been viewed.

| Short facts |
| --- |
| - [Standard scope](/v1/docs/what-is-the-standard-scope-of-a-specific-dimension-or-metric): "Pages" - [Auto scope in the filter engine](/v1/docs/what-is-the-auto-scope-of-a-specific-dimension-or-metric-in-the-filter-engine): "Pages" - The calculation of pages paths always relate to a visit. |

Using this dimension is only useful if you restrict your analysis to one or more specific preceding pages.

#### Example

#### ![](https://documentation.mapp.com/download/attachments/7214738/image2020-6-19_8-10-20.png?version=1&modificationDate=1592547021000&api=v2)

A user views the following pages within a visit:

Based on *Page C*:

- the "Preceding Page" is *Page B*
- the "Second Preceding Page" is *Page A*

#### Example for Usage in an Analysis

Most often, this dimension is used in the Preceding Pages path:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/554b9b98-6720-4d8b-9919-c7b203d72648/Images/Documentation/grafik(21).png)

3.087 times the page *en.women.shoes* was viewed. 901 times the page *en.women* was viewed directly before, and *en.home* was viewed 390 times directly before both.

## Similar figures

[Preceding Pages](/v1/docs/preceding-pages): the pages viewed directly before an arbitrary page [Follower Pages](/v1/docs/follower-pages): the pages viewed directly after an arbitrary page [Second Follower Pages](/v1/docs/second-follower-pages): the pages viewed directly after the follower page of an arbitrary page.

## Further Information

Training document [Analysis of Navigation Paths](/v1/docs/analyses-5-analysis-of-navigation-paths)