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A while back I wrote a post about tracking outbound clicks with Google Analytics; way back then (about 6 months ago), the only event that Google Analytics could track was a pageview. Now that they’ve introduced the _trackEvent method of the pageTracker object, events that aren’t pageviews don’t need to count as pageviews anymore; instead, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Update: Make sure you check out the new _trackEvent method of the Google Analytics pageTracker method. If your analytics account offers event tracking, this is the right way to do it if you don’t want your events to count as pageviews. I’ve written a new post about tracking outbound clicks using the new method.
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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, [...]
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