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Brian
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8 years 2 months ago #150840 by Brian

Track attachment downloads by country? was created by Brian

Hi,

Is there a way - either via a K2 component, or Google Analytics, to track attachment downloads by country? I am trying to figure out the most painless way to implement this.

Thanks!
Brian

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8 years 2 months ago #150852 by Krikor Boghossian

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The easiest way would be to add an analytics event to the link to track it through your analytic's account.

The code that generates the link in item.php is:

<a title="<?php echo K2HelperUtilities::cleanHtml($attachment->titleAttribute); ?>" href="<?php echo $attachment->link; ?>"><?php echo $attachment->title; ?></a>

I suggest that you use overrides instead of editing core files.
getk2.org/documentation/tutorials/174-templating-with-k2-and-the-concepts-of-sub-templates

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8 years 2 months ago #150870 by Brian

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I tried adding the event tracking info to the url, based on this site's instructions: www.blastam.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/how-to-track-downloads-in-google-analytics

But when I add the code (for case when same window), I get a 404 error on my site. Any ideas?

Thanks! Brian

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8 years 2 months ago #150872 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Track attachment downloads by country?

This blog post seems a bit old. Depending on which version of analytics you are using (ga.js or analytics.js) you should consult Google's documentation.
developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/events

or
developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/eventTrackerGuide?hl=en

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8 years 2 months ago #150891 by Brian

Replied by Brian on topic Track attachment downloads by country?

Hi,

I changed the code to the following, after reviewing recent info:

<a title="<?php echo K2HelperUtilities::cleanHtml($attachment->titleAttribute); ?>" href="<?php echo $attachment->link; ?>" onClick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Downloads', 'Click', 'Downloads','0']);"><?php echo $attachment->title; ?></a>

And I am using the plugin Nice Google Analytics, which simply loads google analytics (async).

But the event is not being created. Do you see anything obvious that is going wrong?

thanks!
Brian

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6 years 2 months ago #166447 by natecovington

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This is the onClick command that I recently used for a client's site using the new Universal Analytics tracking code, Joomla 3.8.x, K2 2.8.x:

onclick="ga('send', 'event', 'PDF', 'Download', '<?php echo $attachment->filename; ?> <?php echo $attachment->title; ?>');"

Hope this is helpful for someone...

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6 years 2 months ago #166452 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Track attachment downloads by country?

You posted it again, thanks :)

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