Comments on: How To: Track File Downloads with Google Analytics

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:35:23 +0000

Hello,

If I have many PDF to download on my pages then is there any code that can track download of any PDF,

Thanks

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google analytics howto — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:54:01 +0000

Great article!!Thanks for the step-by-step explanation.I followed these steps and successfully implemented it…thanks again for the information…Carry on the great work!

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google analytics download — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:41:25 +0000

Thanks for the information.Google Analytics is now becoming a subject of discussion.I tried many times to track file downloads with google analytics but i couldn’t do it.But now it works successfully when i followed your instructions.Thanks again for the great information!!

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:44:22 +0000

Great tip – thanks.

Do you happen to know anything about treating events in Google Analytics as conversions?

Thanks!

By: seangw

seangw — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:59:56 +0000

I doubt this could track access to PDFs without loading the web page. The only way (that I know of, happy to learn otherwise) is to use server side logs. These aren’t as popular as they once were, but are probably more accurate than the standard Javascript tracking we do nowadays (Google Analytics). Those logs will contain downloads of PDF files without any referring page.

By: dgilperez

dgilperez — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:40:26 +0000

I’m wondering if this may be used to track external accesses to the PDF URL, ie without loading the web page where the onClick event is located. Any help? Thanks !!!!!

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By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:10:08 +0000

Thanks for sharing it. I learn a lot from your post. I will try it in my google analytics.