[Yanel-dev] Google analytics exit link onclick problem
Michael Wechner
michael.wechner at wyona.com
Fri Apr 23 23:59:13 CEST 2010
Bruno von Rotz wrote:
> couldn't we alter the suffix?
> We could have html_e or htmle to highlight external links. The problem
> though is that you still wouldn't know where it went.
I think we should introduce a "reserved prefix" and map an URL like for
example
http://www.nyt.com/yanel/foo/bob.html
to
/EXIT_www.nyt.com/yanel/foo/bob.html
which is similar as described here
http://groups.google.com/group/analytics-help-tracking/browse_thread/thread/f44df0d094752c28
http://seogadget.co.uk/how-to-count-your-outbound-click-stats-with-onclick-in-google-analytics/
WDYT?
Thanks
Michi
> Bruno
>
> Michael Wechner schrieb:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have refactored the Google analytics code slightly and have noticed
>> that it currently does not allow re onlick() to differentiate
>> between external and internal links starting with http or https, e.g.
>> let's assume we have have a page
>>
>> http://localhost:8080/yanel/foo/bar.html
>>
>> which contains the following links
>>
>> http://localhost:8080/yanel/foo/bob.html
>> http://www.nyt.com/yanel/foo/bob.html
>>
>> then both links will be sent to Google analytics as
>>
>> /yanel/foo/bob.html
>>
>> because the method/function Yanel_requestURIFromFQURL within
>>
>> src/webapp/htdocs/Google-Analytics/GA.xslt
>>
>> is cuttinng off the protocol and the hostname, because AFAIK Google
>> does not
>> allow protocol and hostname to be sent.
>>
>> Any idea how to improve this, because it would actually be nice to
>> analyze exit links?
>>
>> (in particular re goals/funnels:
>> http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55515)
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Michi
>>
>>
>
>
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