Text Copy Tracking
Text Copy Tracking is a new feature that measures the text users copy to their clipboards from your site. We do not track what users do with these copied keywords, but it is likely that many are put into a search engine. These keywords should give you a better idea of your audience's specific interests and reveal opportunities to keep users engaged with your site. For privacy reasons, we omit any copies that appear to be a URL, an email address, or a phone number. You can use it on any page, but it will only be active for site visitors who are using a supported browser.
How it Works
Text copy tracking works by hooking into your browser's native JavaScript copy events (see, for example, Mozilla's documentation).
Configuration
You can activate text copy tracking on pages that have AddThis installed, using a client api parameter:
var addthis_config =
{
data_track_textcopy: true
}
This will activate text copy tracking for all pages that have AddThis code except for your homepage.
Analytics
Your users' copies will show up in your analytics live view.
Supported Browsers
Text copy tracking relies on the native onCopy event in JavaScript. Our coverage will grow as users update their browsers; currently, copy tracking is only available in these browsers:
- Firefox 3+
- Chrome 13+
- Safari 5+
- IE 9+
This means that we can only directly measure a portion of your users' copy events. We cover most browsers worldwide according to statcounter.
