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Say I have a file in my website: https://example.com/sample.pdf
Is there a way to track how many people clicking on the link, similarly how regular links are tracked? The article Additional kinds of measurement - Analytics Help suggests me to measure clicks as Events. However, if I send the direct link to the viewers, there will be no script to be fired.
I create a blank HTML file, then embed the PDF inside it:
<embed src="path/to/file" width="100%" height="100%" type="application/pdf">
For your convenience, here is my template:
<head>
<title>CHANGE THIS TEXT</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="description" content="CHANGE THIS TEXT">
<meta name="keywords" content="CHANGE THIS TEXT">
<meta name="author" content="CHANGE THIS TEXT">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta property="og:title" content="CHANGE THIS TEXT" />
<meta property="og:description" content="CHANGE THIS TEXT" />
<meta property="og:image" content="CHANGE THIS TEXT" />
<!-- INSERT Google Tag Manager script -->
<!-- INSERT Facebook Like script -->
<style>
@media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {
.phone {
font-size: large;
}
.desktop{
display: none;
}
}
@media only screen and (min-width: 601px) {
.phone {
display: none;
}
}
</style>
</head>
<div class="phone">
CHANGE THIS TEXT
<a href="https://xkcd.com/1110/"><img src="https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c7/click_and_drag.png" width="100%" alt="From the stories, I expected the world to be sad.
And it was
And I expected it to be wonderful.
It was.
I just didn't expect it to be so big."></a>
</div>
<div class="desktop">
<embed src="CHANGE THIS TEXT" width="100%" height="100%" type="application/pdf">
</div>
<br>
<div class="fb-like" data-href="CHANGE THIS TEXT" data-width="" data-layout="standard" data-action="like" data-size="small" data-share="true" ></div>