How to count clicks with javascript?

Question

Can I count clicks on links with javascript?

Answer 1

You can count all clicks on a page's links with this script:

// This variable contains the number of clicks corresponding to the linked URLs
var clickCount = {}
// List of all a tags
,   aList = document.getElementsByTagName('a')
// Function called every time a link is clicked on
,   clickCounter = function()
    {
        clickCount[this.href] = clickCount[this.href] ? clickCount[this.href]+1 : 1;
    }
;
// The event is attached to every link having a "href" attribute
for (var i=0 ; i

PS: I don't worry about anchor links, since their tracking may have some interest of its own. If you do, just test if a.href contains location.href+'#' in the for loop.