Tracking Exit URLS? How

[dtracker]

Is there a way to track exit urls? For example, tracking where a visitor goes after exiting our site.

[larryn]

D,

You could use some scripting tricks to find out which links on your site someone clicked on, but not much more.

For instance, you can use the Javascript 'onClick' event to sent a tag to a log file on your server - the target of the onClick would be a script that logs the info you'd have encoded into the events action. Another way would be to set the href of a 'a' tag to a script on your server that would likewise capture the destination, log in and then send the browser off to their intended site.

But without any other intervention on your part¹, there is no way to find out where a visitour goes next as that information is logged on the server of where they have 'went'.

Hope this points you in the right direction,

Larry

[1] Of course, you could deposit malware on their computer and find out plenty, but that would not be a good thing.

[randymorin]

Google Analytics does this for free.

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They are currently not accepting new sign-ups. That'll change in the near future. Keep your eyes peeled.