track download events #4

Author: rbouckaert

_includes/analytics.html

@@ -7,5 +7,18 @@
 
 ga('create', 'UA-47201501-1', 'auto');
 ga('send', 'pageview');
+
+/**
+* Function that tracks a click on an outbound link in Analytics.
+* This function takes a valid URL string as an argument, and uses that URL string
+* as the event label. Setting the transport method to 'beacon' lets the hit be sent
+* using 'navigator.sendBeacon' in browser that support it.
+*/
+var trackOutboundLink = function(url) {
+   ga('send', 'event', 'outbound', 'click', url, {
+     'transport': 'beacon',
+     'hitCallback': function(){document.location = url;}
+   });
+}
 </script>
 <!-- End Google Analytics -->

_includes/header.html

@@ -85,7 +85,22 @@
                 				    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
                 				var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
 				})();
+				
 			</script>
+<script type="text/javascript">
+/**
+* Function that tracks a click on an outbound link in Analytics.
+* This function takes a valid URL string as an argument, and uses that URL string
+* as the event label. Setting the transport method to 'beacon' lets the hit be sent
+* using 'navigator.sendBeacon' in browser that support it.
+*/
+var trackOutboundLink = function(url) {
+   ga('send', 'event', 'outbound', 'click', url, {
+     'transport': 'beacon',
+     'hitCallback': function(){document.location = url;}
+   });
+}
+</script>
 
         <style id="simpler-css-style" type="text/css">
 .site-content .entry-header,

index.html

@@ -9,9 +9,12 @@
 <h2>Download</h2>
 <p>The latest version of BEAST 2 is version 2.4.8:</p>
 <ul>
- 	<li><a id="windowsDownload" href="https://github.com/CompEvol/beast2/releases/download/v2.4.8/BEAST.v2.4.8.Windows.zip">Download for Windows</a></li>
- 	<li><a id="macDownload" href="https://github.com/CompEvol/beast2/releases/download/v2.4.8/BEAST.v2.4.8.Mac.dmg">Download for Mac OS X</a></li>
- 	<li><a id="linuxDownload" href="https://github.com/CompEvol/beast2/releases/download/v2.4.8/BEAST.v2.4.8.Linux.tgz">Download for Linux</a></li>
+ 	<li><a id="windowsDownload" href="https://github.com/CompEvol/beast2/releases/download/v2.4.8/BEAST.v2.4.8.Windows.zip"
+	 	onclick="trackOutboundLink('https://github.com/CompEvol/beast2/releases/download/v2.4.8/BEAST.v2.4.8.Windows.zip'); return false;">Download for Windows</a></li>
+ 	<li><a id="macDownload" href="https://github.com/CompEvol/beast2/releases/download/v2.4.8/BEAST.v2.4.8.Mac.dmg"
+ 		onclick="trackOutboundLink('https://github.com/CompEvol/beast2/releases/download/v2.4.8/BEAST.v2.4.8.Mac.dmg'); return false;">Download for Mac OS X</a></li>
+ 	<li><a id="linuxDownload" href="https://github.com/CompEvol/beast2/releases/download/v2.4.8/BEAST.v2.4.8.Linux.tgz"
+	 	onclick="trackOutboundLink('https://github.com/CompEvol/beast2/releases/download/v2.4.8/BEAST.v2.4.8.Linux.tgz'); return false;">Download for Linux</a></li>
 </ul>
 <p class="p1">The BEAST 2 source code is available from the <a href="http://www.github.com/CompEvol/beast2">GitHub repository</a>, which produces the latest cutting edge jar file here: <a href="http://hudson.cs.auckland.ac.nz/job/BEAST2/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/build/dist/beast.jar">beast.jar</a>. </p>
 <h3>Previous releases and version history</h3>