How to track link out with modx?

Hi guys

just wondering if its possible to track exiting links with modx? (or I need to install a modx plugin of somesort?)
What I mean is when i link a website, www.somesite.com, I would like to know how many user’s has linked on this link.

Revolver,

You should be able to track this with some analytics software like Google Analytics. I’m not sure exactly if GA gets down to that granular of a level, but I’m sure some analytics software does.

rthrash made an awesome Google Analytics Plugin. You can find it here. Maybe someone else can help you out to find exactly what you’re looking for- this is just the first thing that came to mind.

thanks

I was thinking that there might be a snipplet of somesort
where I would link to another site

and it would replace the URL with www.mydomain.com/redirectout?www.somesite.com
then we could track it

EDIT: in regards to the GA plugin you provided above, im not sure why I would need it?
I just added a chunk and then add the chunk tag in my template and im done no need for extra plugins.

EDIT: in regards to the GA plugin you provided above, im not sure why I would need it?
I just added a chunk and then add the chunk tag in my template and im done Wink no need for extra plugins.

I wonder if one method is more efficient than the other?

The plugin allows you to prevent logging on certain pages by checking the Log Hits variable (i.e. only inserts the GA script when the page metadata indicates that page should be recorded to GA), preventing hits from admin users, etc.

Quote from: dev_cw at Oct 09, 2008, 10:57 AM

EDIT: in regards to the GA plugin you provided above, im not sure why I would need it?
I just added a chunk and then add the chunk tag in my template and im done Wink no need for extra plugins.

I wonder if one method is more efficient than the other?

i’m not sure, but it works

Quote from: OpenGeek at Oct 09, 2008, 11:15 AM

The plugin allows you to prevent logging on certain pages by checking the Log Hits variable (i.e. only inserts the GA script when the page metadata indicates that page should be recorded to GA), preventing hits from admin users, etc.

in that case, this plugin is useful. but how do you turn it off for pages you dont want on google?

Quote from: Revolver at Oct 09, 2008, 06:28 PM

Quote from: OpenGeek at Oct 09, 2008, 11:15 AM

The plugin allows you to prevent logging on certain pages by checking the Log Hits variable (i.e. only inserts the GA script when the page metadata indicates that page should be recorded to GA), preventing hits from admin users, etc.

in that case, this plugin is useful. but how do you turn it off for pages you dont want on google?

Sorry, you turn it off by unchecking the Log visits (stats) checkbox on the Page Settings tab when editing a Document (which is what I was trying to say previously).

Quote from: OpenGeek at Oct 09, 2008, 08:15 PM

Quote from: Revolver at Oct 09, 2008, 06:28 PM

Quote from: OpenGeek at Oct 09, 2008, 11:15 AM

The plugin allows you to prevent logging on certain pages by checking the Log Hits variable (i.e. only inserts the GA script when the page metadata indicates that page should be recorded to GA), preventing hits from admin users, etc.

in that case, this plugin is useful. but how do you turn it off for pages you dont want on google?

Sorry, you turn it off by unchecking the Log visits (stats) checkbox on the Page Settings tab when editing a Document (which is what I was trying to say previously).

sorry about that, I got it now.
Thats a good feature!