Exit links not showing in new project

[webado]

The only link to an external site you have on the homepage goes to a Facebook address. That's all that could get logged as exit link.

Except you are not using SC4, the new type of Statcounter code which is capable of logging exit links and downloads, so again you will not see any.

Moreover you have a fair few links to your own internal pages set in an image map. If you have Statcounter code on those pages then you will see the visitor progression on the site.

[eidetic]

Originally Posted by webado

The only link to an external site you have on the homepage goes to a Facebook address. That's all that could get logged as exit link.

Thanks for your help, but you are looking at the wrong site. The site in question is http://www.jothorne.com. This is the site with the new code, where I am having problems with exit links.

[Arne]

Originally Posted by eidetic

Ok, thanks. But now the exit links are not working again, and I can't figure out what I changed that made it work! Do you know what the method is to allow image mapped links to work with exit link logging?

Sorry, I don't know how you can make links in image maps to get logged as exit links, not even if it is possible. It must be at least 10-12 years ago since I used any image map.

If I would do something like what you have, I would have the whole image ("pearl-tiara.jpeg" or what you call it) as a background image and use CSS to add the text and normal <a href=....> links on top of it. E.g. the link text "Jewellery" is just one image (jewellery.gif) so there is no need to have it as image map. Linking the image with a normal link would be enough, positioned with css to where you want it.

[webado]

Oh, I must have missed that.


Ok, you still have an area map:

<map id="map1" name="map1">
<area alt="" coords="0,1,472,18" href="http://www.jothorne.co.uk/index.html" title="Jo Thorne Jewellery"/>
<area alt="VISIT US NOW AT JOTHORNE.CO.UK" coords="0,0,474,18" href="http://www.jothorne.co.uk/"/>
</map>
<map id="map2" name="map2">
<area alt="JO THORNE" coords="4,0,637,52" href="http://www.jothorne.co.uk/index.html"/>
</map>
<map id="map3" name="map3">
<area alt="jewellery" coords="2,0,88,9" href="http://www.jothorne.co.uk/store/jewellery_p1.html"/>
</map>

Click on those exit links would likely not be detected.

I see in the source code also some regular html links to some of the same addresses, but I cannot tell from what is displayed in the browser whether I'm clicking those or the ones in the area map.

[eidetic]

Following the discussion on this thread yesterday, I decided to bite the bullet and replace the links with standard html text. The reason I hadn't done this before was that I wanted to use a non-standard font for aesthetic reasons, but now I've used the @font-face rule so I can style the text more to my liking.

However, even though I've made these changes and destroyed the blocking cookie in my projects in order to test exit link data capture, for some reason when I test it myself it's still not working.

It seems some exit link data is being captured, but based on examining the data from my other project, it doesn't seem to work every time, and I can't really trust it because I can't see it working in my own tests. Just so we're clear, I have DEFINITELY destroyed the blocking cookie in my projects.

Does anyone know why this might be?

It would be helpful if someone could test this for me by going to http://www.jothorne.com and clicking on the links.

[webado]

I just did. You should see my IP (starts with 72.0 ) with 3-4 exit links clicked.

However you still have the area map and its links.

[eidetic]

Originally Posted by webado

I just did. You should see my IP (starts with 72.0 ) with 3-4 exit links clicked.

However you still have the area map and its links.

Thanks - yes, I'm seeing exit links recorded. Did you click the big logo at the top, and the link which says "visit us at jothorne.co.uk" ?

[webado]

I think I clicked everything that appeared clickable.

[Arne]

Ok, I clicked on all (3) menu links and you should see the exit links from them. The header text is still an image map, so that probably don't show exit links.

As I said, you don't need to replace the link images with pure text if you don't like. The image with the same text can also be linked the same way as the text, without making a image map of it. But the text links you have now looks good in my opinion.

[eidetic]

Originally Posted by webado

I think I clicked everything that appeared clickable.

Interesting.

I can understand why the big graphic logo is not sending exit link data (area mapping), but the html link in the middle of the tiara image is also not being captured. Any idea why?