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Hello, I'm using an extension called JoomlaWatch as a replacement for Google Analytics. It's really awesome, but it does not track outgoing URLs. I've been thinking of how to fix this, and the best way I could come up with was this:

When a user clicks an external link on my site (www.example.com/uk), I have the link go to another internal page and from there automatically redirect them to the external link. So I set up a page called www.example.com/uk/redirect, and in admin tools URL Redirection feature I made it redirect the /redirect page to the real external link.

So now when I click the link to www.example.com/uk/redirect, it redirects me to the external link I set up in admin tools, but the thing is, JoomlaWatch still doesn't track it. I think it's because the /redirect page doesn't load at all when it's done this way, am I right?

For JoomlaWatch to work it needs to load the code (I guess it's the same with Google Analytics). My JoomlaWatch code is currently in the footer, so for every page that loads the footer it shows statistics for.

Is there anyway I can achieve this, or am I in head over heels?

Appreciate any help I can get, as I really want to be able to track my outgoing links! :)

Thanks in advance,

Wow, thanks. Don't know how I missed that component! Oh well, you learn something new every day! :)

But my problem still persists, it does not load the internal page before it redirects, so my JoomlaWatch does not track it unfortunately. :(

Do you have any other solution to this? Can I make it load the page and then redirect?

On a site note, what are you using for this site, to track traffic etc.? Any recommendations besides JoomlaWatch? Only reason I'm using it is because it's very simple, and real-time, and also straight from the admin backend.

I'm not sure we are on the same page here :P

I'm trying to track clicks from my website to amazon.co.uk, so I created a weblink for each separate amazon link, as you described. This works great, as it tracks the clicks in the Weblinks component.

However, what I was trying to achieve was to be able to track these clicks in the same place as I track the rest of my site, in the JoomlaWatch component. And to be able to do that, the page I want to track needs to load the code I inserted in the footer for JoomlaWatch. Basically, every time the code loads another hit is registered etc.

So, right now it tracks the clicks through the Weblinks component, but not through JoomlaWatch.

Perhaps I am doing something wrong?

Hmm, isn't it possible to have a separate internal page for each external link, which firstly loads the internal page and then, with the help of a php script or something, redirects to the external page? That way it would track every time someone clicks the link to the internal page (for example www.example.com/uk/amazon1 would redirect to a certain product, www.example.com/uk/amazon2 would redirect to another product etc. etc.). If this is possible I would be able to see the hits on my internal pages (www.example.com/uk/amazon1 etc.).

I know how to do this on a static website, however I am having trouble doing it inside joomla :P

By the way terribly sorry for going so much off topic, I am aware that this has nothing to do with admin tools any more, which I thought it would be when I first created the topic.

If you feel this is a discussion for another forum I completely understand! :)