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# Pathways Diagrams

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## Overview{% #overview %}

Pathways diagrams allow you to visualize all user journeys across your application to analyze the critical path.

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   alt="The default Pathways diagram for an app" /%}

Each node represents a view the user visited. The thickness of each node represents the count of user sessions on that page. A page with fewer visitors has a thinner node in the diagram.

If a user visits the same page multiple times during their session, that page is only counted once.

Action events are not supported in the Pathways diagram.

## Build a Pathways diagram{% #build-a-pathways-diagram %}

### View the default diagram{% #view-the-default-diagram %}

1. Navigate to [Product Analytics > Charts](https://app.datadoghq.com/product-analytics/user-journey/pathways).
1. Click Pathways if it's not already selected. This displays the default visualization that represents the most popular user journeys in your application.

### Start or end the diagram at a given view{% #start-or-end-the-diagram-at-a-given-view %}

You can use the left menu to customize this diagram and display:

- the steps users took *after* visiting a given view
- the steps users took *before* visiting a given view

The example below displays the four steps that users in the United States take after visiting `/department/lighting`:

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   alt="A customized Pathways diagram for an app" /%}

### Graph all views containing a given phrase{% #graph-all-views-containing-a-given-phrase %}

Pathways diagrams support [Datadog wildcards](https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_monitoring/explorer/search_syntax.md#wildcards), allowing you to build a diagram of all views containing a given phrase.

To match multiple routes, type a wildcard instead of choosing a single view name. The example below displays the five steps that users take after visiting any view matching `/department/*`:

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   alt="A Pathways diagram that uses a wildcard to match several routes" /%}

## Analyze a pathways diagram{% #analyze-a-pathways-diagram %}

You can hover over a diagram node to view the number of sessions that included visits to that view.

Click a node for a list of analysis options, such as viewing a sample [Session Replay](https://docs.datadoghq.com/session_replay.md) or building a Pathways diagram that starts with that view.

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   alt="The actions menu of a Pathways diagram node" /%}

### Convert the diagram to a funnel{% #convert-the-diagram-to-a-funnel %}

1. From the Pathways diagram page, click the Build Funnel button.
1. In the Pathways diagram, click the nodes of the views you want to include in the funnel.
1. Click Create Funnel From Selection.

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   alt="A Pathway to funnel conversion in process" /%}

## Further reading{% #further-reading %}

- [Charts](https://docs.datadoghq.com/product_analytics/journeys.md)
- [Build Sankey widgets in Dashboards](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/widgets/sankey.md)