GA and GIFs

Can I use a GIF as a GA GOAl?

[chewy]

seems to me this is possible - has anyone tried it?

I'm hoping that I can track "add to cart" type impressions when someone clicks the button.

[KBarnhart]

You can track the "add to cart" clicks pretty easily, but I am not sure about using an image as one of the goals.

If you need it, here is how you track links in Google:
1) use the href tag below
2) use the page URL that it is going to
3) provide a name for the click-thru tracking folder
4) name the link or the click
5) add code to site

<a href="http://www.[your shopping cart page].com" onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/tracking folder name/link name');"

Then, under the content performance \ content drilldown report, you will see the new tracking folder with each individual click name you provided. It will count the number of clicks you have

[chewy]

thanks - not sure it will work on an external shopping cart page (one that I cannot put the tracking code on).

Give the external SC, I just want to see how many people click on "add to cart" in GA.

Maybe someone needs to figure out a way to embed tracking codes in gifs?

[KBarnhart]

If you host your product image, WebTrends is able to tell you which files were loaded and how many times. I haven't found this option in the free version of GA. I'm not sure if the paid version provides info on what number of times a GIF image was called.

Your server logs would have that info and you would have to manually extract that info