The Scenario
The SEO and paid teams had a disagreement last week. Paid argues the new landing pages they built are outperforming the blog. SEO says the opposite. Neither team has the actual entry-page data to settle it — just dashboard screenshots that show different things depending on who you ask.
Your job today is to pull the real numbers into a shared Excel workbook: which pages are driving the most first sessions, what their bounce rates look like, and how that splits between SEO-structured URLs and paid landing page paths. Both teams need to see the same data before Friday's channel review.
The bad version:
- Open Plausible, navigate to Entry Pages, export the CSV — and realize the export doesn't label which paths belong to which team, so you have to tag each URL manually.
- Paste the CSV into a new worksheet, add a team ownership column, hand-tag 50 rows based on URL pattern, and notice three blog posts were recently redirected to the paid landing page domain, making your tags wrong for those rows.
- Send the workbook to both teams, get replies asking why the totals don't match the Plausible dashboard — which is because the CSV export and the dashboard use slightly different session-counting logic.
Friday's channel review is in two days.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It queries Plausible's entry-page breakdown and writes it directly into your specified worksheet — then you can add tagging and flag logic in the same prompt.
Open the Landing Pages worksheet and run this prompt:
Pull the top 50 entry pages from Plausible for last month and write each page path (A), number of sessions starting on that page (B), and bounce rate (C) into this Excel sheet
What You Get
- Column A: entry page path (e.g., /landing/free-trial, /blog/how-to-use-x)
- Column B: sessions that started on that page
- Column C: bounce rate for entries from that page
- Top 50 by sessions, sorted descending, no extra columns to delete
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You need to tag pages by team based on URL pattern
Query Plausible for entry pages for the last 30 days — write page path (A), sessions (B), bounce rate (C) — then in column D write Paid if the path starts with /landing/ or /lp/, and SEO for all other paths
You want to compare this month's entry sessions to last month's
Query Plausible for top 50 entry pages for the current month — write page path (A), sessions (B) — then in column C VLOOKUP against the Last Month worksheet to pull last month's sessions for the same path, and in column D calculate the percentage change
You need to flag high-bounce entry pages for UX review
Query Plausible for top 50 entry pages for the past 30 days — write page path (A), sessions (B), bounce rate (C) — then in column D flag any page where bounce rate exceeds 0.65 with the label Needs UX review
Pull entry page data, tag by team, flag high-bounce pages, and write a verdict in one shot
Query Plausible for top 50 entry pages over the last 30 days — write page path (A), sessions (B), bounce rate (C) — tag each path in column D as Paid or SEO based on URL prefix — flag any page with bounce rate above 0.65 in column E as High bounce — then in cell G1 write a summary comparing average bounce rate for Paid vs SEO entries
The data, tagged and compared, ready for Friday's channel review.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open an Excel workbook where you track landing page or SEO performance — then ask it to pull your Plausible entry-page breakdown for the last 30 days. For related reads, see the hub overview or the spoke on top-pages report.