- hiroshi
I am curious if there was a way to track direct downloads that may come from other sites. After looking through the GA help pages, I am thinking you can’t track them w/GA if the referring page isn’t yours. I enabled Drupal’s statistics module, but it seems to only track pages, not files. Does anyone know if there is a way to track files that are downloaded?
For example, one of our professors runs the Antislavery Literature website and directly links to some of our podcasts from his site. We also usually announce podcasts by sending out the direct URL. We would like to track these downloads if possible.
Thanks, Bruce
Any ideas? (crickets)
Guess not.
http://drupalmodules.com/module/downloadcount
You should be able to use google analytics. You can have your site added to the ASU analytics, then drill down and see all sorts of detail on your site. I haven't done it myself, but I believe that file downloads is available, according to a coworker. If you want more information, the contact at UTO is Nancy Lee.
I am just tracking from the two sites that we know link to the files as a workaround. I've consulted Nancy on this and GA will only track click-throughs but can't track file downloads since the tracking code can't be part of the file in question. Any direct downloads will go untracked.
Thanks for the response!