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An extra section counts hits. When there is a hit on /shop/sr1.htm?district_id=102,103  or on /shop/sr1.htm?district_id=102&district_id=103 , it can only be counted as 1 hit.

Another approach would be to create an extra section that counts the hits on URL's including "102" and another that separately counts the hits on URL's including "103".

If there is no other parameter before the first “district-id”, you can try this :

(^ character added in front of “district_id”)

You wrote: " can I only match the first result. e.g. only match the first district_id in query string "

Just to clarify: your query string will only match one district_id query string anyway even without the ^. I am not sure about which one will be picked up if you have /shop/sr1.htm?district_id=102&district_id=103 .

It is not a good practice to use the same variable name twice in a query string. In my opinion, /shop/sr1.htm?district_id=102,103  would be a much better form than /shop/sr1.htm?district_id=102&district_id=103 . It would be easy to only pick up the first number within district_id=102,103 .