Category: analytics
June 3, 2008
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 […]
Categories: analytics, howto, jquery, plugins |
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January 7, 2008
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 […]
Categories: analytics, blogging |
Tags: seo | 1 Comment »
January 6, 2008
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 […]
Categories: analytics, howto, jquery |
Tags: google analytics, progressive enhancement, seo | 4 Comments »
January 3, 2008
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, […]
Categories: analytics, blogging |
Tags: analytics, bounce rate, google, stumbleupon | 2 Comments »