Category: analytics

Track user clicks on certain links

We recently added a new feature to dailystrength.org, and there was much debate about whether users would use it as we intended. To find out, I wrote a clicktrack ditty that sends some data to the server when a link is clicked. It was somewhat inspired by a post I wrote a while ago about […]

Showcase related content to keep visitors clicking

I’ve drummed up a lot of visitors by posting links on dzone and StumbleUpon, but the visitors aren’t very sticky — many will visit the single page I linked to and then move on.
Looking at my site exits in Google Analytics, I noticed that my category pages had much lower exit rates than my […]

Track outbound clicks with Google Analytics and jQuery

Sometimes, you may want to know what outbound links a user is clicking on — say, if you’re linking to an affiliate’s site and want to be able to count the clicks you’re sending. Google Analytics offers this bit of code to accomplish this:
 
<a href="http://www.example.com"
onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview(’/outgoing/example.com’);">
 
and says:
Google Analytics provides an easy way to track clicks […]

Suspicious StumbleUpon Bounce Rates?

I’ve been promoting some of my blog posts by submitting them to StumbleUpon, and it’s been generating a fair bit of traffic — my post “How I Learned CSS” has done especially well. I’ve been watching my site using Google Analytics, and I’ve noticed that visitors from StumbleUpon have a substantially lower bounce rate than, […]