The Links-Tracker application is a freeware
application available from SurfStats that makes inserting JavaScript
tracking code into web pages easy.
The application is primarily used to
add JavaScript tracking code to web pages for clients of the SurfStatsLive
Real-Time Reporting Service, set up as a Statistics Bureau.
However it can also be used for other statistics services.
To use the tool you need the following:
- The JavaScript code to insert, which would be provided by
the Statistics Service.
- Access to the content web pages that needs to be tracked.
- The Links-Tracker application installed. To install,
download from
here, unzip and install.
To add the JavaScript code to your web pages, after installation,
run the Links-Tracker application and perform the following
actions:
- Click File Types on the Edit menu to add/remove
the file types that you want the Links-Tracker to add/remove
JavaScript tracking code from.
- Click Internet Statistics Services on the Edit
menu. Then click Add to add the details for a new statistics
service. The following screen (with blank fields) appears:
On the screen fill in a name to identify the service by in the
Name of tracking service field. Use the first line of
the JavaScript code (copy and paste) for String starting
with, fill in the last line of the JavaScript code (copy
and paste) for String ending with and provide the complete
piece of JavaScript code in the Tracking code string
field, then click OK and Close.
- On the Links-Tracker main application screen select
the service just added as the Service to Insert on the
right (.ltk gets added to the name specified).
- Browse to the location of the web pages, using the tree
view on the left, Shift-select or Ctrl-select the files on the
right, then click Insert Service to insert the JavaScript
tracking code or Remove service to remove the JavaScript
tracking code from the selected web pages.
- After the JavaScript code has been added to all the pages
that need to be tracked, upload the web pages to the content
web server.
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