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track outbound links in Google Analytics
var trackOutboundLink = function(event) {
var url = this.href;
ga('send', 'event', 'outbound', 'click', url, {
'transport': 'beacon',
'hitCallback': function(){document.location = url;}
});
event.preventDefault();
}
Array.prototype.slice.call(document.getElementsByTagName('a')).map(function(el) {
if (el.href[0] != '/') el.addEventListener('click', trackOutboundLink);
});
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meehow commented Mar 16, 2017

Good point. Thank you.

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