How to count clicks to external links?

[Thedavisrun]

On our service portal we have a number of hyperlinks to other HR tools at the top.  Is there a way to see how many times each of these has been clicked? We don´t have the performance and analytics plugin activated. 

[Brad Tilton · Accepted solution]

I don't think we have anything that captures clicks in SP, although there is some analytics about pages visited. If you wanted to track clicks like that I think you'd have to build it in either by using JS in the links instead of straight urls that would log the click somewhere and then open the url for the HR tool, OR you could build a passthrough type page that you direct the user to that logs the click and then passes them on to their final destination.

[Mrigank Gupta]

You can store those clicks in a new log table.

ng-click will help you in this case. When the user clicks it, it will log whatever details you want to keep for that click and the session.

From portal side, sp_log is the only table which will provide you the logs but not the number of clicks. You have to create this custom utility from your side only.