You can add a tracking event to the onclick event of the link pointing to the PDF. There's plenty of documentation on how to do this on the Google site.

Basically you add some script to the onclick event of the link, which registers a virtual page view with Analytics, whicch will then appear in reports.

http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55529

Harvey.



On 18/10/2011 12:41 p.m., Bruce Clement wrote:
A contact has Google Analytics on her Wordpress site, but as Analytics tracking is client-side she doesn't know how to tell how many people download her pdf brochure.

I know this can be tracked using the web server's logs, but correlating that to Analytics looks like hard work.

Does anyone know how to get GA to track the downloads?

Thanks in advance
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