How to check which links/buttons etc. are clicked on a page with Page Overlay

[gulyasan (Andras)]

I would like to see which links/buttons/elements etc. are used on a page. Page Overlay would be a perfect solution, but:
“It is important to understand that Page Overlay doesn’t really record the click on the link. Instead, it uses the data Matomo gathers anyway to determine which pages were viewed directly after visiting the current page. If there are multiple links to this page, it cannot tell which link was used how many times.”

Using the page overlay feature - Reports - Matomo Analytics Platform

I could use the Heatmap function but it is a premium plugin. Could you suggest me an alternative solution? Thanks

[heurteph-ei (Philippe)]

Hi @gulyasan
A solution (but with no representation of the page) is the track of all links:

Track Clicks on table of contents on various pages

Hi there, I am very new to the MTM - so please excuse my missing knowledge On several pages I have a table of contents. I want to create a tag that meassures if they are actually clicked. How can I set this up so that it meassures all clicks on all tables of content on all pages? As for now I only have an idea - but that doesnt do the job very well: I create a trigger that fires when click class contains “internal-link” and when visible elements text contains “table of conte…

[gulyasan (Andras)]

Thank you! Or may be just measuring the identical links on the same page, for the rest the overlay can give a good picture…
Thanks!

[heurteph-ei (Philippe)]

Hi @gulyasan
What do you mean by:

@gulyasan

just measuring the identical links on the same page

[gulyasan (Andras)]

I mean overlay gives a good overall picture. I think it is completely reliable if you want to check which menu / links are not used at all on a given page. But if there are two links/two different menus that bring you to the same Url, it does not work. In this case you must use events.