…then click “Save.” Site note: Here’s what you didn’t know about bouncesīefore we look to check our exits in Analytics, we should explain something: This event tracking will affect our bounce rates. That’s exactly how you set the triggers in the event. In other words, fire the trigger when the Click URL does not contain your website. Now we just need to tell the trigger to fire whenever an offsite link, to another domain, is clicked. I called mine “Offsite Link Click” Then click to choose the trigger type. You can do this from within your new tag by clicking to “Choose a trigger to make this tag fire.” Click the plus sign in the top right to create your new trigger. Next we’ll create a trigger for our event.Just go to the Variables section, click the red Configure button and then check the “Click URL” check box It is a built-in variable, but it’s not enabled by default. Note: if Click URL is not available, you’ll need to first enable the Click URL variable. You’ll also have the opportunity to add a value to this event, but it is unnecessary for event tracking offsite links. We’ll set the category to “link”, the action to “click” and the Label to “Click URL.” The beauty of Google Tag Manager is that you can just type these right into boxes. All events in Analytics have three main parameters: Category, Action and Label. ProTip: Use a text-constant variable, such as instead of your specific tracking code for more flexibility later. Select “Event” from the Track Type dropdownĭon’t have your GA Tracking ID memorized? Who does, right? Look up it up in the Property > Tracking Info > Tracking Code section of the Google Analytics Admin area.Enter your Google Analytics Tracking ID.Google isn’t going to support Classic forever! Note: If you aren’t using Universal yet, you should strongly consider switching. Select either Universal Google Analytics or Classic Google Analytics.I called mine “Offsite Link Event Tracker” Then click to choose the tag type. Finally, we’ll publish these to the live site. If not, call your developer.įirst, we’ll create a tag, then we’ll create a trigger for the tag. If so, you can just follow the steps below. We’re going to use Google Tag Manager (GTM) to set up event tracking. Here’s how to track all the clicks on all the links to other websites. How to set up event tracking with Google Tag Manager to track exit link clicks We’ll do it by setting up event tracking and offsite link clicks using Google Tag Manager. Let’s learn step-by-step how to track every click that takes visitors off of your website. But there is no report in Google Analytics for tracking clicks on the exit links! Yes, the exit page report shows the last page they visited. In Analytics, all three exits look the same. It’s something you added to your website, during design or when publishing content. The first two are natural and impossible to avoid. They click on an offsite link or button.They close the browser tab (or type another website into the address bar).Tracking the three types of website exits And in the process, you’ll learn how to set up event tracking with Google Tag Manager. Why do your visitors leave? Which exit links are they clicking? In this post, you’ll learn how to track website exits and offsite links. Or they left because we suggested they leave. They leave right before they took action. The visitor bought something or became a lead and it’s time to move on. It may be happening on your site right now. But what about keeping them? Did we encourage them to stick around? Or did we squander the opportunity and show them the door? Think of all that work that goes into attracting visitors. I wish I could say the problems started immediately on that date, but I cannot.It’s hard building an audience. I am currently running Win10 Pro, Version 1903, Build 18362.356. I have not found anything online describing this problem. However, after about two weeks, I started receiving those same error messages, so it looks like it is a Win10 issue coupled with any unique setting my laptop has. Initially I was able to circumvent the problem by switching to Firefox (current version is 70.0). I submitted this issue to the Chrome community and didn't receive a response. Without fail, I access the website-immediately, without any delay. I would click on the link (usually, but not always, from within Gmail), and I would get one of three errors:Īfter getting this error message, I close the tab with the error, go back to the originating source, and click the link again. A couple of months ago (approximately) I began to have trouble accessing links that opened a new tab.
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