Tracking exit links clicks accurately

Can't get Google and statcounter to agree

[mooperlee]

I am trying to track which external links people click on to leave my site. I have Statcounter and Google analytics runnings. For some exit links Statcounter says that, say, 100 people have exited through that link in a month, whereas Google will say it's 10 people.

Does anyone know what might be going in? Is there a proven way to accurately track exit link clicks? I would have thought that it would be one of the easier stats to track but apparently not...

[tonynoriega]

do you have the outbound link google tracking in the <a href...>?

statcounter may be counting crawlers, or spiders that are following that link... google does not track those. google only tracks actual users that trigger the JS. (im pretty sure)

[BradleyT]

Probably the most accurate way would be for you to create a redirect page that accepts a URL parameter and then record the click to a database before doing a redirect.