I have the below question from a client, I'm trying to understand it, hoping people here can offer some help: Can I get to navigation patterns of non-US visitors, in other words understand where they go after they visit my site? I'm trying to figure out if they stay on the US website or if they exit and go to international sites.
What you ask is not possible. It would be a gross breach of privacy. From a technical viewpoint when a user leaves a site there is no "message", no info sent by the browser to the site just left. This is very much as it should be, imo.
That's what I thought.. when dealing with clients this big I like to confirm with another expert before delivering the news though. Thanks!
Best you could do here is track outbound links from your site but not just the next page they visited (if it was direct for example).
There are certain javascripts to add to your page that will automatically add the GA TrackEvent code o every link on your page. Read about it here: http://www.microsoft-analytics.com/automatic-tracking-of-outbound-links-t64.html If the user closes the window or uses the back button to leave the site this can not be tracked though!