This is my current strategy for tracking hyperlink clicking by a site
visitor (Internet Explorer example):
Using Javascript I:
Attach an event to the document "onclick" handler.
When a click occurs, the Javascript "onclick" event hander I assigned,
checks to see if the event srcElement (or its parent in the case of a "font"
element) is a hyperlink (tagName = "A" or "a").
If so, I build a URL with the search arguments set to the information I wish
to record.
I find a specific IMG element on the page and set it's SRC property to the
URL I built.
If the hyperlink opens a new window using the "_blank" target, this works
flawlessly. If however a new window is not opened, the transaction is lost.
It's as if the IMG element SRC property setting never actually happens.
Is there a way to make this work? Or do I have to create tracking codes for
each hyperlink and change all the URL's to go to a pre-emptive document that
records the click, before showing the desired web page.
thx
Robert.
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"Lasse Reichstein Nielsen" <lr*@hotpop.com > wrote in message
news:k7******** **@hotpop.com.. . "Robert Oschler" <no_replies@fak e_email_address .invalid> writes:
I have some links that lead to external sites. I like tracking them so
I can see what my visitors are interested in, and therefore provide them
more content in those areas in the future.
Some of us would call that "snooping on my browsing habits" and would
do our best to foil you scheme (or just avoid your page entirely).
I trust it you have a "privacy policy" that tells people that you log
their browsing?
I don't see how server scripting + URL arguments would work without an
intermediary page for off-site links.
Not for off-site links, no. You have to go through your own links.
I didn't think you would try to log off-site links.
Or am I misreading something?
Nope.
If I have to use the URL + "search argument" method, wouldn't I have to
create an intermediary page to intercept those links and record the
tracking info, rather than the direct links I have now?
For pages in your domain, if they are processed on the server, you
don't need a client-side redirect. You can send the new page directly,
and just log the extra information.
/L
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Lasse,
For pages in your domain, if they are processed on the server, you
don't need a client-side redirect. You can send the new page directly,
and just log the extra information.
Oh yes! I wasn't thinking there, thanks.
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