How to track file downloads

Question

I am launching an image gallery site that can be used to upload images ... let's say if you call somedomain.com/flowers it will return a zip file containing the top 10 floral images ....

Now my requirement is to track these downloads ... how can I implement this ... any opportunity to use Google Analytics.

Update: I forgot to add another important thing, because of which I can not use custom events ...

You don’t always have to click and download the zip file .... I created a small application (AIR application) to directly download the file. In this case, I can’t use the GA script ... I want to know if GA can be used in this case, if so, how to implement it?

Answer 1

A user event fires when a user clicks on a download link.

Answer 2

You need to associate Google Analytics events with your links. Read please

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerOverview.html

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html

Answer 3

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<script type="text/javascript">
  function obl(this) {
    try {
      var pageTracker=_gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXXXX-X");
      pageTracker._trackPageview("a_download_link");
      setTimeout('document.location = "' + this.href + '"', 100)
    }catch(err){}
}
</script>



<a href="a_download_link" onclick='obl(this);return false;'>Click Here to Download</a>

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<script type="text/javascript">
  function obl(this) {
    _gaq.push(['_trackPageview', 'a_download_link'+this.href]);
    setTimeout('document.location = "' + this.href + '"', 100)
  }
</script>

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