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Feature suggestion: Event tracking
Personally I feel event tracking, like keeping track of the number of people submitting a contact form, is one of the most important metrics for a lot of website where the main goal is to get people to reach out to the website owner.
Two possible ways of going about this:
- Automatically keep track of all form submissions and use the form ID or other information in the form element as a sort of label.
- Manually add event tracking to just the interactions a site owner needs: link clicks, form submissions, focusing on a form input, etc.
We could start out with just the manual approach and when that's working well enough, slowly shift to a more automated way.
Please vote on this feature suggestion using :+1: or :-1: below.
Hi Danny, thank you for your wonderful work on Koko Analytics!
I am not sure if this is possible as I am no developer, but I would be truly grateful if you could have "internal link clicks tracking," in addition to "external link clicks tracking."
This is because I would like to see how viewers are circulating around my website & what kind of external websites they are interested in enough to click links.
Matomo Analytics tracks external link clicks as "Outlinks," but it has few roundabout ways to track internal link clicks. This is the very reason I cannot get rid of Google Tag Manager.
I created my Github account in order to post this comment. Anyway, thank you again for handy and lightweight Koko Analytics!
Hey @TyWood,
Thanks for dropping by! Sorry I'm a bit late to respond but my partner and I have been expecting a baby (due 8 days ago, still waiting) so I haven't been able to work as much.
Tracking link clinks, whether internal or external, is something that would be covered by event tracking at the very least, which will definitely end up in the plugin soon-ish so that should be good to know. For example, you could add a tiny snippet of JavaScript to your website to track all link clicks and categorise them by Outlink: <link-name> and Inlink: <link-name> so it's easy to distinguish both.
That said, if it's visitor flow you're interested in there might be simpler ways to go about this, although I would have to think a little more on what that would look like. Do you have a good example of how you would like this to work ideally?
Thank you very much for your detailed reply, @dannyvankooten ! I too am really sorry for my late response. I was not feeling well.
I am happy to hear that link clicks tracking is likely to be implemented, and differentiating external and internal link clicks will not be a problem.
My ultimate ideal would be that Koko Analytics can display
- Which links, as "Clicked URL," got how many clicks as "Clicks," and the "Total" row
- After clicking a figure in the "Clicks" column, in which URL, as "Clicked where," the links were clicked how many times, and the "Total" row
Here is what I tried plotting:
1st Displayed
[External link clicks]
| Clicked URL | Clicks |
|---|---|
| https://example.com/dogs | 50 |
| https://example.net/seashore | 20 |
| --- | --- |
| Total | 70 |
[Internal link clicks]
| Clicked URL | Clicks |
|---|---|
| / | 100 |
| /about | 40 |
| /privacy-policy | 30 |
| --- | --- |
| Total | 170 |
Displayed after clicking a figure in the "Clicks" column, for example "30" of "/privacy-policy"
| Clicked where | Clicks |
|---|---|
| / | 25 |
| /about | 5 |
| --- | --- |
| Total | 30 |
However, even only the 1st one will be a big plus to know how many and what kind of link clicks happened.
I run my small mainly book review website as a pure hobby, so large-scale website owners and marketers might have different wishes.
English is my second language, so please feel free to change my wording when equipping these features.
Thank you for being open to users', even laypeople's comments!
Hey @dannyvankooten -- thanks for your work on privacy-respecting web analytics. Very much appreciate it. Love Koko and what it offers for WordPress site admins.
We make open-source book publishing software built on the WordPress platform that allows people to publish free copies of the book in various export formats to the book's homepage. We've added a single custom filter for Google Analytics which tracks book download events from a book's homepage (https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks-book/blob/77e3d130dca6cf24df8a1fb921017df5a4f38997/partials/content-cover-book-header.php#L73-L82)
We'd love to be able to use Koko for something similar -- if that was possible, then we we able to totally support our users who want to drop Google Analytics but still gather basic information about page views and file download events for the books they publish. Eager to hear about any future plans to add support for event tracking, and to potentially contribute via a PR if it was welcomed and would diminish the chances of us making our own fork of the project.
Another request for event tracking, to track outbound links that moved people away from the site. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-you-please-add-those-features/
I'm very interested in this feature! I manage a website with many downloadable PDF resources. Ideally I'd like the be able to apply multiple categories/tags to files, and see download #s in various combinations. For example, being able to look at all downloads in a particular language, or all downloads for resources on a particular topic.
