This feature is only available in the Pro version of Independent Analytics.
Tracking all outbound clicks leads to a lot of clutter in your data. Instead, Independent Analytics Pro allows you to selectively monitor clicks for certain external domains.
For example, let’s say you have an Etsy shop, and you link to your store frequently. If you want to track how many times visitors click on links pointing to your Etsy store, you could do so by adding a new Domain link pattern like this:
The domain link pattern will record every click on links pointing to the specified domain, and you can create as many of these patterns as you need.
Once you’re tracking clicks on all the external domains you want to monitor, it’s time to create the report.
Creating the report
To create the outbound clicks report, we’ll apply a couple of filters.
Visit the Clicks report, and then add a filter that excludes all links that contain your own domain in the Target URL.
This condition alone should work well, but you might still see links for email addresses and phone numbers. To exclude them, add two new conditions, each excluding the email and phone number links by name.
With all three conditions added, apply the filter, and you’ll be left with only clicks on external links.
Lastly, click the Save As button to save your customizations as a new report you can revisit in the future.
Now, you have a report showing only clicks on outbound links that you can customize further whenever needed.