[Web4lib] Google Analytics was Lies, damn lies, and usage statistics?

[Matt Grayson]

You can explicitly get Analytics to track clicks on outbound links by adding
an onclick event. See
<http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=27246&ctx=sibl
ing> for specifics.

Matt


On 3/9/07 9:21 AM, "Drew, Bill" <drewwe at MORRISVILLE.EDU> wrote:

>  Can someone elaborate on what is meant by adding Analytics Code
> segments to links?  I do not see such a feature in google Analytics
> except for something linked to marketing.
> 
> Bill Drew
> drewwe at morrisville.edu
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Hogue Melanie
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 9:51 AM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Lies, damn lies, and usage statistics?
> 
> Would Google Analytics be sufficient to check at least some of your
> stats? I know it would not see pages residing or generated on your
> vendors' servers; but you might be able to verify number of sessions
> and/or unique users by Analytics code segments inserted in the links to
> each resource. Are there security issues with doing this? We use it
> because it is currently free and because it provides more detailed
> information than what is basically provided by our own server software.
> See http://www.google.com/analytics/
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