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 Events tab of the Goals block, on the Statistics screen, and in the CSV export. The Outbound links tab of the same block shows you which sites your visitors leave for most (its rows don't filter the page).

#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 Events tab counts outbound clicks; the Outbound links tab and the CSV export give the site-by-site breakdown.

#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.