As mentioned before, PDFs are harder to track. As a result, many marketing teams turn off PDF downloads or set them to only be downloaded after the user has completed a form. This way, their focus shifts from tracking performance to generating leads. However, there are some ways to track your PDFs, including:
Event Tracking
You can track clicks on PDF links and send them to your france telegram data analytics system. This allows you to see how many times people click on PDF files to download or open them. You can learn how to set this up here .
Embed
If you embed the PDF into a page using JavaScript or an iframe, you can only use the data from that page for analysis.
Intermediate tracking script
This is a complex solution that sends clicks to the PDF via an intermediate tracking script. This is a way to send click data to your analytics system before you send the PDF to the user. You can find an example here .
Server Logs
Since PDF files are stored on the server, any access requests to the files will be recorded in your log files .
Third-party data
Since PDFs are rarely tracked in analytics systems, sometimes the best data you have comes from elsewhere, like Google Search Console or Ahrefs. Ahrefs can also give you data about which competitor PDFs are getting the most organic traffic. Simply paste the domain into Site Explorer , then go to the Top Pages report and search for the included .pdfURL.