Comments on: Updated: Tracking Exit Links in Google Analytics

By: danny

danny — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:56:25 +0000

That’s great. Let me know how it goes along.

Yes, javascript applies an onclick event on all exit links.

By: Marko

Marko — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:12:30 +0000

UPDATE:

The statistics seem to be picked up by Analytics now. I’m not sure exactly how this is working as the links don’t have an attached Onclick event, so I guess it’s JS magic :)

By: Marko

Marko — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:46:31 +0000

Hi Danny,

is this script supposed to add an onClick event in the link? If this is the case, I can’t seem to get it working. Please have a look on this page and let me know if it looks ok to you: http://tomorrowsdate.com/date/detail/bondi_openair/

Thanks!
Marko

By: danny

danny — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:04:41 +0000

No worries mate. Glad I could help :)

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:48:31 +0000

Danny,

Thanks for all your help, I put a perma link on my Japan Travel Blog that I hope will send some trafic your way. you can check it out at

http://www.blog.japan-travel-information.com/

CHeers and thanks again

By: danny

danny — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:44:00 +0000

Well, assuming that people actually clicked on exit links, it should take 24 hours for it to appear on Google Analytics reports. I guess it depends also when GA updates the data, but from experience it is usually 24 hours.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:00:27 +0000

How long did it take you before you could track results in Analytics?

By: danny

danny — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:58:47 +0000

Txt is always an empty string. And also you don’t need width and height to be set in each if statement. The if statements should have else if instead?

Anyways, that’s besides the point. I’m not quite sure how this relates to javascript links.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:45:26 +0000

ok here is the script im useing do you think it will work??

var how_many_ads = 4;
var now = new Date()
var sec = now.getSeconds()
var ad = sec % how_many_ads;
ad +=1;
if (ad==1) {
txt=”";
url=”http://www.example.com.com”;
alt=”banner 1″;
banner=”http://www.example.jpg”;
width=”880″;
height=”120″;
}
if (ad==2) {
txt=”";
url=”http://www.example.com.com/”;
alt=”banner 2″;
banner=”http://www.okinawa-information.com/banners/banner_02.jpg”;
width=”880″;
height=”120″;
}
if (ad==3) {
txt=”";
url=”http://www.example.com.com”;
alt=”banner 3″;
banner=”http://www.example.jpg”;
width=”880″;
height=”120″;
}
if (ad==4) {
txt=”";
url=”http://www.example.com.com/”;
alt=”banner 4″;
banner=”http://www.example.jpg”;
width=”880″;
height=”120″;
}
document.write(”);
document.write(‘‘);
document.write(”);
document.write(” + txt + ‘‘);
document.write(”);
// End –>

By: danny

danny — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:31:54 +0000

What do you mean in javascript? You mean they have onclick attributes?

If so, my script should accomodate that. However, if your onclick statement returns false, then it won’t work.