: External link tracking when opening the link in a new window in Google Analytics? OK, so this seems like a really simply problem, but I have yet to find a solution that accomplishes the following:

@Cooney921

This is my favourite script for tracking outgoing links and opening in a new window. This is for the async version of GA.

It uses jQuery for convenience, and has a few 'not' classes that you can use as overrides.

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('a:not(.popupwindow)').filter(function() {
var theHref = this;
if (theHref.hostname && theHref.hostname !== location.hostname) {
$(theHref).not(".noAutoIcon").addClass("offSite");
$(theHref).not(".noAutoLink").attr('target','_blank').bind('click keypress', function(event) {
var code=event.charCode || event.keyCode;
if (!code || (code && code == 13)) {
var fixedLink = this.href;
fixedLink = fixedLink.replace(/https?://(.*)/,"");
fixedLink = '/outgoing/' + fixedLink;
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', fixedLink]);
};
});
};
});
});
</script>


Originally from here, I think:

iso-100.com/blog/post/updated-script-for-tracking-outbound-links-in-google-analytics-with-jquery/

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@Annie201

you can track events with google code.

put this code in your head

<script>
function recordOutboundLink(link, category, action) {
_gat._getTrackerByName()._trackEvent(category, action);
}
</script>


then you could do as Hissohathair says above and put the onClick in every link

`<a href="/path/to/page" target="_blank" onClick="javascript: recordOutboundLink(this, 'entercategoryname', 'enternameofaction');">`


then in your google analytics goto "content > Event tracking"

you can also use javascript to add this automatically instead of adding to each link
(I wrote a wordpress plugin that had this feature)

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@Cofer257

I might have misunderstood... does this not work?

<a href="/path/to/page" target="_blank" onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/path/to/page');">

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