Link clicks (example downloads) not beïng tracked [#1836370]

Comment #1

hass CreditAttribution: hass commented 9 November 2012 at 15:09

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» Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

You may have disabled download tracking. Otherwise we need an example site with latest version installed where you think it's not working.

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Comment #4

nils.destoop CreditAttribution: nils.destoop commented 9 November 2012 at 19:51

Download tracking is enabled.

If i changed code to:

  $('a').click(function(event) {
    
    // Catch the closest surrounding link of a clicked element.
    //$(event.target).closest("a,area").each(function() {

Then everything is working.
This means the listener on links is working, but a listener on document.body is not working (if a link was clicked).

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Comment #5

hass CreditAttribution: hass commented 9 November 2012 at 21:34

The code worked for past 2 or more years.

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Comment #6

hass CreditAttribution: hass commented 10 November 2012 at 01:28

Title:

Link clicks (example downloads) not beïng tracked.

» Firefox: Link clicks (example downloads) not beïng tracked

This issue is reproducible under Firefox, Chrome works. I can confirm that the tracking pixel is not send to Google in Firebug. The reason seems not the JavaScript itself. With an console.log() I see that all code runs correctly. Only the _trackEvent is not executed or at least it has not enough time to load before an PDF is opened in the same window.

Looks like a duplicate of #1580144: Links not tracked in some browsers as jquery click event exits before tracking code finishes.

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Comment #7

hass CreditAttribution: hass commented 10 November 2012 at 02:11

Tested Firefox with TXT and PDF (both are not tracked). Tested with MSI download (works). It looks like, if the browser is able to open the download itself internally - tracking fails. If a download/save dialog appears - tracking works.

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Your change to A element is invalid and will cause slow unbinding issues, see #336924: Massive page rendering slowdown with many links. Additional it also does not help anything here.