How to track clicks on external links using the Piwik HTTP API?

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I have a Joomla site with a plugin that connects to my Piwik website using the HTTP tracking API.

Everything works as expected.

My question is how do I know when someone has clicked on a link that goes to an external website on my site?

I see there is an outlinks page but it has no data?

Does anyone know how to do this or at least point me in the right direction?

Thanks

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hi,

Perhaps Piwik doesn't track Downloads and Outlinks on my website. - Analytics Platform - Matomo will help you.

regards

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Thanks for the reply Peter. I was a little worried that no one really supports Piwik in these forums.

Since I use the Piwik Tracking HTTP API I load no javascript on my site from Piwik. The reason I did it this way is to make a slightly lower footprint for users and the ability to track all bots. Therefore I don’t think that type of javascript click tracking will work. Though I have not found and reference to it and these reports are available (why are they enabled if I can’t use them???)

I do want to track external links though and there seems to be very little information about how to do this. I have setup a goals along with monitoring outlinks in the report. Nothing ever is reported.

Someone please help.

Tom

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it should “just work” - if it does not for you please create a bug report @ https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues with a link to your website that should be tracking outlinks but isn’t