Can this even be done?

[j3r0m3]

Currently i am maintaining a corporate server A. I have an index page/ menu page stored in this corporate server A. The problem is that on this page, i have links which point to another server B which i have no control or access over.

My problem is that i want to track the hits to these pages in server B. How can i track the hit rate of all the pages in server B with all these restrictions?

I have only thought of one method which is,
for every link in the index page, i create a blank html page which contains the redirect url.

That way, by tracking the hit rate of the blank html page, i will know the hit rate of the page in server B. But i am not sure that this is the most professional thing to do.

Could anyone please shine some light on this?

[MattUK]

Google analytics tracks clicks on specific links, though I'm unsure about it's accuracy.

[j3r0m3]

i doubt i can use analytics on my intranet servers

[wheel]

Not too hard, with a bit of tinkering. You're on the right track with the blank html page, but that's not quite it. Do the redirect directly through a program. I.e make the actual link something like www.yourdomain.dom?redirect.php&url=www.otherdomain.com
where redirect.php is your redirect program and otherdomain.com is the site you want to redirect to.

Then just have redirect.php (or .asp, or whatever) add one to a counter somewhere then issue a redirect to the other domain. Seamless and mostly transparent.

This is how PPC ads work. Ifyou go to Google and click on an ad, they use URL's like this to track click throughs on the ad.