Hello,

I am trying to track file downloads. I added the following code but it still not tracking file downloads.

<a href="pdf/master.pdf" target="_blank" onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('pdf/master);">

Is there anything missing or wrong with this code?

Thank you,

Hello there,

I can see that you are using page view tracking  (_trackPageview). For file download requests, I would use an onclick tracking, or more simply event tracking.

Hope that helps,

Sarah

Yeah, I'd totally do this in TrackEvent rather than pageview - although, I can see that having a virtual pageview would allow you to work out a reverse goal path.

It would depend on how many files of differing types there were, but you could be sneaky, use TrackTrans and treat it as ecommerce.

If you have lot of types of files, and they represent differing levels of "engagement", you could assign an arbitrary yet relative amount to the value of having someone download that.

You could then seperate your files by, say category, content etc and report on them as if they were sweaters, shoes etc

Then, you can see what the most popular types are, how they found your content, and did anyone "abandon" before downloading?

Matt

:- ) I live to serve.

(and grumble and pull faces a bit)