For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website. They enable campaigns with limited text space, such as SMS campaigns. With TinyURL, you can actually customize the end letters and numbers as an option.
In addition to creating short URL versions in the sidebar, you can get personalized stats about your Bitly links, create Tweets right from within the sidebar, and see who is linking to your URL on Twitter, FriendFeed and blog comments. Most URL shortening services offer basic analytic data that tracks the total number of clicks, the time of the click and the country or territory location of the person who clicked the link. With its own URL shortener, you can ensure that your long links are kept safe and secure for your visitors.
Shortcomings[edit] Short URLs often circumvent the intended use of top-level domains for indicating the country of origin; domain registration in many countries requires proof of physical presence within that country, although a redirected URL has no such guarantee. Whatever the case, the answer seems to be using a link shortener. Clicking on it will show you a list of outgoing URL(s) users clicked on your website.
Tracking links in Google Analytics using UTM Source Google Analytics has this amazing feature called custom campaigns. For those who read their emails in a browser (like Yahoo Mail, Gmail, etc.), they would still need to have HTML turned on for it to work, and even then, the email client may restrict whether any scripts embedded in the email can execute.
When this feature is used, links to your site that Sailthru includes in your email campaigns are wrapped in a redirect URL beginning with link.
Is this part of a broader campaign to talk about a new product? Copying an address (URL) using a keyboard and mouse Highlight the address by moving your mouse cursor over the address bar and clicking the left mouse button once or press the F6 keyboard shortcut to get into the address bar. To enable it, you can upload your own SSL certificate for the link domain using the same workflow that Sailthru provides for enabling Apple’s iOS Universal Links. Link Tracking Features Link tracking functionality is primarily implemented in the form of the following two system services: Distributed Link Tracking Client Distributed Link Tracking Server Distributed Link Tracking Client The distributed link tracking client runs on all computers, and manages the link tracking activities for that computer. But if all the links to you use a shorter version, that sort of defeats the point! My third choice, which was once my first choice, is Bitly. For anyone else looking for this, the value can be found by calling event_list_attendees and there is a value called affiliate stored for each attendee. Typically, it’s used for recording on-page JavaScript-controlled interactivity such as opening a widget or making an Ajax call. Although disguising of the underlying address may be desired for legitimate business or personal reasons, it is open to abuse. Here's an example of what declarative event binding looks like for the sign-out button: And the following table shows the actual usage data for these buttons on this site: Media query tracking The Demos & Tools site tracks media query usage for the following categories: Breakpoints: The screen sizes where the site layout changes to fit the content (resize your browser window to see this in action).