Click tracking
Every tool you own counts clicks. None of them says which one paid.
Click tracking means recording every opening of a link and qualifying it: the date, the country, the device, the source. It is a count of visits, and a visit says nothing about what it brought in — which is why a click report gets argued over at the end of every month, and why it renews no budget.
Where the other counters stop
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The visit
Someone — or something — opened the link. It is the only figure everyone displays.
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The human click
Programs are labeled apart: crawlers indexing, inboxes previewing, antivirus checking.
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The context
Date, placement, country, device, referrer, link parameters. Enough to compare two postings.
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The lead
The form submitted, the meeting booked. The first thing a client recognizes as a result.
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The sale
The amount, tied to the click that came before it — and the unattributed shown as such.
What goes into the counter, and what stays out
An honest counter is judged as much on what it refuses to count as on what it shows.
The visit, dated and placed
Every click records the date, the link, the country, the device, the referrer and the parameters carried by the address. Then it redirects. That is the whole record, and it fits in one row.
Bots labeled rather than deleted
A link posted on a social network is visited within the minute by dozens of programs, and their number has nothing to do with your posting. They are kept out of the total by default — but not erased: the analytics screen carries an "Include robots" switch, unchecked, so the filtering rule can be checked instead of believed.
No unique clicks announced
Counting visits identifies nobody; counting people means telling them apart from one visit to the next. We do not do that, so we display no "unique visitors". A total of visits presented as a headcount divides every rate you derive from it by three.
Nothing dropped in the browser
The information travels inside the address and from server to server, not in the visitor's machine. A blocker has nothing to block, an app that opens links in its own window breaks nothing — and whatever did not start with a tracked click stays visible as unattributed rather than quietly spread around.
The click stays inside its client workspace
One client, one workspace, walled off: their clicks never mix with anyone else's, including in the monthly report they receive.
Setting it up
One address instead of another, and nothing else to do
There is nothing to install on the destination page: you publish a short address instead of the long one, it records the visit, then it redirects. The client's site is never touched, and their cookie banner changes nothing about the count.
The only discipline that matters fits in one sentence: one address per place you publish it. The same link pasted into a newsletter, a story and a video description produces one total, never three comparable rows — and that blurred total is what makes most reports unusable.
The rest is a setting: the attribution window, the delay beyond which a click no longer receives a sale. It is set per client workspace, from 7 to 90 days, and defaults to 30.
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The address you publish. The counter sits behind it, not in the landing page — which is what lets you measure a site that isn't yours.
The three objections
"My platforms already give me stats."
"Blockers will skew the count."
"3,000 clicks a month runs out fast."
Frequently asked questions
What is click tracking?
It is the recording of every opening of a link, with its context: date, country, device, source, and the placement the click came from. It answers "how many people opened this", and nothing else: what happens after the opening belongs to conversion tracking.
Is click tracking free?
Yes, with no credit card and no end date. The free plan counts 3,000 clicks a month across 10 links created a month, on a domain in your name. Tying sales back to clicks is included, not reserved for a paid tier.
Do I need to put code on the site to count clicks?
No. Counting happens at redirect time, before the person reaches the page. That is what lets you measure a site you have no access to, and survive a redesign you did not run.
Are bots counted in the total?
Not by default, and they are not erased either. They carry a label, the analytics screen can show them again, and the total adds back up. Deleting automated visits would look better and be unverifiable: the day the filtering rule gets it wrong, nobody could show it.
Why don't you display unique clicks?
Because it would mean recognizing the same person from one visit to the next, therefore following them. We count human visits and we say so, rather than calling "visitors" a number that isn't one.
How is this different from link tracking?
Click tracking describes the event being measured: what enters the counter and what stays out. Link tracking describes the method: how many addresses to create, where to publish them, how to name them so two rows can be compared. The dedicated page covers that second half.
Count your first click
The free account asks for no card. 10 links a month, 3,000 clicks counted, a domain in your name, and sales tied back from day one: enough to run a full campaign before deciding anything.
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