Mailto: and tel: as outlinks

[paulkoan (Paul)]

Hello,

I know that I can add custom goals to mailto and tel links, but is it possible instead to consider these the same as outgoing links?

Or otherwise track them automatically somehow?

[Lukas (Lukas Winkler)]

Hi,

Some time ago, I wrote a small post on how to track them as events:

Tracking tel: URLs (phone numbers)

Hi, you made me curious and I just tried to implement it on my own site: This is a minimal working example, I hope you get the idea how to implement it yourself I added a javascript handler, which execute the piwik trackEvent function. <a href="tel:+123456789" class="phoneLink">Call me</a> <script> $(".phoneLink").on("click", function () { _paq.push(['trackEvent', 'contact', 'clicked phone number', ]); }); </script> Of course you can also write it in plain javascript without jQuery. This…