Tracking file downloads via Universal Analytics

This article refers to our legacy product, Universal Analytics. For the best Finalsite experience, we recommend using our newest product, GA4. To learn more, read the Set up Google Analytics 4 on a Composer site or contact the Support team for assistance.

Tracking individual downloads via Analytics is much more difficult (and less reliable) than tracking individual pages.

If you need to get a count of how many times a particular file has been downloaded, the easy way to do that is to put the link to that file on a site page, and then track visits to the page.