Stats about how often shared

Wishlist Social Share Buttons
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Would be very useful to have stats how often the specific content etc. was shared with a specific social media share button.

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Folks, our former Wishlist portal, where our users shared their requests and suggestions, was transferred to this forum. You’re most welcome to vote, add new ideas, and leave your comments here — we surely will consider them all! :star_struck:

Original Votes: 1

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Hello,

Thanks a lot for adding your idea!

For me to understand it a bit better, do you mean that you’d love to display a number of how much time the share button was pressed? Please check out this feature request for reference - Add counter and total counter to share buttons. | Feature Wishlist.

Thank you and looking forward to your reply!

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This feature suggestion is years old, but I was coming in to request this same feature.

As we have this on our blog posts, we would love backend stats on what links were shared and how often.

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Hi there, @andreavlj :wave:

Unfortunately, this feature isn’t available in our app yet. But the good news is that you can track button clicks using the Google Analytics code as a workaround. To do this, add this part of the code to your website <head>:

<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-ID"></script>
<script>
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
gtag('js', new Date());
gtag('config', 'UA-ID');
</script>

In the code above, you need to replace UA-ID with your actual website ID for Google Analytics. If you are using Google Analytics 4, you need to use G-ID instead of UA-ID (see screenshot). This article will help you find your ID - Find your Google tag ID.

And then just add the rest of the script right before closing </body> tag:

<script>
function sendAnalyticsEvent(config) {
  if (typeof ga !== "undefined") {
    ga('send', 'event', {
      eventAction: config.action,
      eventCategory: config.category,
      eventLabel: config.label
    });
  }
  if (typeof gtag !== "undefined") {
    gtag('event', config.action, {
      'event_category': config.category,
      'event_label': config.label
    });
  }
}
document.addEventListener('click', function (event) {
  const button = event.target.closest('.eapps-social-share-buttons-item');
  if (button) {
    sendAnalyticsEvent({
      action: 'click',
      category: 'Elfsight Social Share Buttons',
      label: button.title
    })
  }
}, true);
</script>

Feel free to test this code and let us know if it worked :slightly_smiling_face: