These extensions are easily obtained and generic enough for almost any organization to use. You can also get a general overview of both open and click statistics from the Campaigns page in your account. Get everything hooked up Some services, such as Bitly, let anyone create a vanity URL shortener. Link shortening service vb.ly was shut down back in 2010 by Libya, which leads to the problematic fact of link shortening: you depend upon a third-party service to deliver visitors through your shortened links. This UA code can be found next to your website’s profile in Google Analytics Dashboard.
Sending Variable Data with Link Clicks Send event and variable data to Adobe Analytics when a user clicks a link. In the background, Analytics sends data by requesting an image beacon.
That’s a lot of back and forth just to get me a a web page. When setting up a new campaign or setting up a new traffic source, think about questions like: How is this source structured? You should see the activity in the Analytics Real-Time > Events panel. With this level of visual reporting you can view a complete account overview of all your statistics, or drill down into each individual link to see when it got the most clicks, and where your traffic is coming from.
Please note: anyone with a t.co shortened link will be able to navigate to the destination URL. But if all the links to you use a shorter version, that sort of defeats the point! When you click on one of these links, you will (hopefully!) be redirected to a more familiar website. If done properly, you should have in the above box. An index of all object IDs is stored on the volume.
This can be added to existing JavaScript files or in a script block as long as it’s loaded somewhere within the HTML body (ideally, just before the closing tag). jQuery (or your alternative) must be loaded first although the Google Analytics tracking code can appear anywhere on the page. /* Track outbound links in Google Analytics */ (function($) { "use strict"; // current page host var baseURI = window.location.host; // click event on body $("body").on("click", function(e) { // abandon if link already aborted or analytics is not available if (e.isDefaultPrevented() || typeof ga !== "function") return; // abandon if no active link or link within domain var link = $(e.target).closest("a"); if (link.length != 1 || baseURI == link[0].host) return; // cancel event and record outbound link e.preventDefault(); var href = link[0].href; ga('send', { 'hitType': 'event', 'eventCategory': 'outbound', 'eventAction': 'link', 'eventLabel': href, 'hitCallback': loadPage }); // redirect after one second if recording takes too long setTimeout(loadPage, 1000); // redirect to outbound page function loadPage() { document.location = href; } }); })(jQuery); // pass another library here if required The event is recorded with the category name ‘outbound’, action name ‘link’ and the value set to the URL of the outbound page. Rename, backup, and restore operations preserve object IDs. The reason for this is because cookies cannot be set cross-domain, and pageviews, interest data and campaign-specific purchase attribution would not function. Distributed Link Tracking Server The distributed link tracking server runs on each domain controller in a domain. Additionally, I want to make sure that if I have to exclude my domain as part of a tracking parameter in an external URL, that I don’t accidently exclude that click from being tracked. note: If you have both GA Universal and GA Classic running on the same site, you’ll have to create 2 separate External Link Trackers.