Download tracking but no outlink tracking

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1

hi,

I am a newbie with piwik.
I have installed piwik for having basic statistics on my web site (a photo blog).

as said in the title, I wish to have download tracking but no outlink tracking (in fact, I have published some theme for the CMS zenphoto and I wish to have specifics stats of downloading).

how can i do ?

  • disable the download & outlink tracking and force a click on a link to be recorded as a download in Piwik ?

so the tracking code will look like


piwikTracker.setDocumentTitle(document.title);
//piwikTracker.enableLinkTracking();
piwikTracker.trackPageView();

with this class on the relevant links

class='piwik_download'

I am OK ?

2

hi

I disabled the monitoring of outlink and set the class ‘piwik_download’ to forcetracking of specific downloads.
but the results are not good: I do not see any specific downloads.

info: currently, I use phpMyVisit (version installed by default by my ISP Free) and piwik.
I test the correct configuration of Piwik and the proper integration on my site before migrating all on a new hoster.

there is the code of my footer


<!-- phpmyvisites -->
<a href="http://st.free.fr/" title="phpMyVisites | Open source web analytics"
onclick = "window.open(this.href); return(false);"><script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var a_vars = Array();
var pagename = 'zpArdoise 1.4';

var phpmyvisitesSite = 204639;
var phpmyvisitesURL = "http://st.free.fr/phpmyvisites.php";
//-->
</script>
<script language="javascript" src="http://st.free.fr/phpmyvisites.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<object><noscript><p>phpMyVisites | Open source web analytics
<img src="http://st.free.fr/phpmyvisites.php" alt="Statistics" style="border:0" />
</p></noscript></object></a>
<!-- /phpmyvisites -->

<!-- Piwik Tracking Code -->
<script type="text/javascript">
var pkBaseURL = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://avbo7291.o2switch.net/piwik/" : "http://avbo7291.o2switch.net/piwik/");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + pkBaseURL + "piwik.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script><script type="text/javascript">
try {
var piwikTracker = Piwik.getTracker(pkBaseURL + "piwik.php", 1);
piwikTracker.setDocumentTitle("zpArdoise 1.4");
//piwikTracker.enableLinkTracking();
piwikTracker.trackPageView();
} catch( err ) {}
</script><noscript><p><img src="http://avbo7291.o2switch.net/piwik/piwik.php?idsite=1" style="border:0" alt="" /></p></noscript>
<!-- End Piwik Tracking Code -->

and there is the link to track :


<p>
<a class="piwik_download" title="zpArdoise 1.4" href="http://st.free.fr/phpmyvisites.php?url=http%3A//vincent.bourganel.free.fr/data/zpArdoise%201.4.zip&id=204639&pagename=FILE:zpArdoise%201.4" target="_blank"><img style="float: left; margin-top: -20px; margin-right: 10px;" title="zpArdoise 1.4" src="http://vincent.bourganel.free.fr/zenphoto/themes/zpArdoise/images/download.png" alt="zpArdoise 1.4" />zpArdoise 1.4.zip</a>
</p>

please, could you help me ?
thanks in advance

3

You need to leave piwikTracker.enableLinkTracking(); to track downloads.
It will also track outlinks but it should be fine, even if you don’t need the data?

4

hi

thanks for your reply

ok, whith i will follow outlinks, even if I don’t need the data.

but, my tests between phpMyVisit and piwik are not concluant : I am unable to follow the download of specific files with piwik.
I want only tracking specific downloads and I don’t want to follow other download (I do not mix - or walnut - the results supplied)

for my needs, should I do like that :
1/ configure the script : piwikTracker.setDownloadExtensions("") (-> no file extention to follow)
2/ add class=“piwik_download” on my specifics links to follow as a download ?

thanks for your help.

5

vincent3569, I think your proposal will work .setDownloadExtensions("")

please test it and report here if it works :slight_smile:

6

hi

After some test, unfortunately, this does not work.

there a link to anonymous report : http://avbo7291.o2switch.net/piwik/
and there, a link of my website (i want to track the dowload of the zip file) : http://vincent.bourganel.free.fr/zenphoto/index.php?p=pages&title=zpardoise-1.4

the specific links are shown as outlink but not as download.

can you help me to configure piwik for doing what i want to do ?

7

This is by design, if the files are not on the same domain as your website, then it will be counted as outlinks…

8

the files to track are is on the same domain as my website (vincent.bourganel.free.fr).

but the link is a “composite one” : it allows to phpMyVisit to tack those files.
that’s why I added the class=“piwik_download” to force tracking.

zpArdoise 1.4.zip

it is a temporary solution, and to compare piwik and phpMyVisit before switching to piwik.
do you have any solution for me ?

9

Switch to Piwik directly, Phpmyvisites is not supported anymore and I can promise you that Piwik is a lot better :slight_smile: