Written on March 14th, 2006 at 09:03 am by Darren Rowse
Site Meter adds Outbound Clicks Tracking
There’s news over at the Site Meter blog today that the free website statistics package has added tracking of outbound links to it’s offering.
The free version of their service will now track the last 100 URLs that your readers leave your blog to visit if you have the javascript version of their tracker installed on your blog.
Not included in the tracking are clicks on AdSense ads (or most other advertising) and clicks generated by javascript. It only tracks the last click of a reader on your site (ie if a reader clicks multiple links during their visit it only shows the last one).
They also say that it doesn’t track clicks by readers using certain browsers (including Safari). This might explain why it seems to only be giving me a URL for about 1 in 10 of my outbound links (see screenshot below).
This is a welcome addition to Site Meter which is going to make stats packages like MyBlogLog have to rethink their service – but I have to say that the implementation of it is not as good as the Performancing Metrics package that should be released in beta in the next week or so.
Found via Makovision
11 Responses to “Site Meter adds Outbound Clicks Tracking” - Add Yours
Aaress
March 14th, 2006 10:11 am
Thanks for mentioning this! I use sitemeter on my site and never noticed it was added!
I agree, it does not work too well with javascripts, so I’m getting a lot of empty stats, but it is extremely useful to see which text links people click on.
yoyo
March 14th, 2006 10:39 am
i just looked at my clicks and it is showing outbound clicks on affiliate programs, that is good news, lets hope I can see a sale from it!
Jesse
March 14th, 2006 11:14 am
rediculously helpful. I’m now addicted to my stats
Thame
March 14th, 2006 11:56 am
I use a number of stats tracking programs including Mint and Analytics and each provides its own outclick tracker (Mint Outclicks Pepper and Analytics’ Site Overlay), but I’ve been beta testing CrazyEgg recently and I really like it.
One especially cool feature of CrazyEgg is the heatmap.
Good stuff.
Jesse
March 14th, 2006 1:27 pm
crazy egg hasn’t worked for me
David Askaripour
March 14th, 2006 1:37 pm
That’s a cool new feature. Nice!
David Askaripour
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KarmaDude
March 14th, 2006 3:00 pm
I use awstats, its not pretty, but I love the organization of the information, and how easy it is to catch patterns at a glance. It’s open source, maybe someone can give it a web 2.0 face lift.
Andy Merrett
March 14th, 2006 7:53 pm
Hehe it’s not pretty but then neither is Excel and lots of people use that. :) In fact Sitemeter’s not really pretty either (purple and green graphs? c’mon) but they work!
mark
March 15th, 2006 3:40 pm
I’ve been using statcounter.com for a long time now, and felt the basic features were good enough for me. However, just recently I added addfreestats.com who also have a good outbound details. It tracks the last couple of people (I think it was 500) and it gives a breif history of the user (entry/exit page, how they navigated in the site, time they stayed, country, etc.)
Donovan
March 16th, 2006 11:34 am
how can i access the crazyegg service? it seems to be in beta stage and is closed to using. email me if you can help me get access. attractionchronicles (at) gmail. com
mark
March 17th, 2006 6:02 am
Oh, I forgot to mention…
Like Donovan (post 10), if anyone has the opportunity to invite people to crazyegg, please invite me too (mkda85 _at_ gmail.com).. Thanks in advance.
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