Just a Few of the Available Sites I won’t claim to be familiar with all the possible URL shortening sites you could use. Unfortunately, reports would be misleading if one or more outbound sites didn’t use Analytics. This real-time report gives you detailed tracking information about every single click your link receives, as it happens. If you copy and paste this script exactly as it appears here, your outbound clicks will appear in your Analytics Events reports with a Category of "outbound" and an Action of "click". (In the snippet, these are shown in bold.) You can use these values, or change them and define your own values.
Charts and Graphs Get free real-time graphs so you can clearly visualize your link activity and see where you're getting the most response. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 21 Dec 2012 More Thanks.
So you might want to enable it for a day, measure it … and turn it off if you need to.Home Knowledge Can Google Analytics Track Link Clicks? Every access requires more requests (at least one more DNS lookup, though it may be cached, and one more HTTP/HTTPS request), thereby increasing latency, the time taken to access the page, and also the risk of failure, since the shortening service may become unavailable. The associated shorthand link and URL are logged in a registry database.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about 70% smaller than the permalink for this post. 2Redirecting per specific platform Adjust offers specific redirect options for users to be redirected to a specific location depending on their platform.
So understanding how users are interacting with those external links can be helpful. As I said, that reference number is unique to your Instagram post, and 18 quadrillion is easily going to be sufficient for all those food photos people post there. They'll be able to view the same real-time reports any time they want! Is this part of a broader campaign to talk about a new product?