Outbound links

The outbound event counts your visitors' clicks to sites other than yours. It's a built-in event, counted automatically — nothing for you to add (see Custom events). It shows up as outbound in the "Triggered events" card of the Analytics tab (Events section), and in the CSV export. A dedicated "Outbound links" card, in the Behavior section, shows you which sites your visitors leave for most.

#How it works

The Snorklee code (w.js) watches for clicks. The moment a click lands on an <a href="https://…"> link pointing to a domain other than yours, it sends an outbound event.

Only the destination site name (the hostname) is sent — never the full address, never the link text. The "Triggered events" card counts outbound clicks; the site-by-site breakdown is in the events CSV export.

#What counts as "internal"

Snorklee compares the link's domain with the current page's (location.hostname). A link is "internal" only if the domain is exactly the same.

In practice: a link to a subdomain of your site (e.g. blog.example.com from example.com) counts as outbound. That's a deliberate choice — we keep the tool simple, with nothing to configure.

#Privacy

outbound keeps only the destination site name, and only in aggregate. No full address, no URL parameters, no link text — so nothing that could point back to a person or reveal a specific page. Aligned with the CNIL framework of July 2025.