Tracking Web hits to PDFs with Google Analytics

Here's some sample code on tracking PDFs, video, image files (anything other than HTML or server-processed pages). This a simple takeover of your own anchor tag that drops a quick client-side event in there for google to track, just before serving up your PDF.


< a href="http://www.example.com/files/map.pdf" onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/downloads/map'); ">

I'm not entirely clear on whether or not the link used in your javascript has to actually exist. If anyone figures it out before I get around to it, please post here!

In the mean time, here's a link to the Google Analytics support page addressing this exact approach.