Events

What Yegonota tracks on your pages — interactions, engagement signals, and how to control them.

What are events?

Events are things that happen on a page — a visitor clicking a link, scrolling through your content, or spending time reading.

Yegonota tracks two kinds of events automatically:

Interactions — things visitors actively do, like clicking a link or a button.

Engagement signals — passive measurements that hint at how visitors experience your page, like how far they scroll or how long they stay.

Together they help you understand not just who visits your pages, but what they do when they get there.

Interactions

Outbound link clicks

When a visitor clicks a link that goes to another website, Yegonota records the destination domain and how many times it was clicked. No configuration needed.

Example: a visitor clicks a link to github.com — Yegonota records github.com as an outbound click.

Download clicks

When a visitor clicks a link that downloads a file, Yegonota records the file URL and click count. No configuration needed.

Email link clicks

When a visitor clicks a mailto: link, Yegonota records that an email link was clicked. The email address is never stored — it is converted to a short anonymous code before being saved.

Button clicks — opt-in only

Button clicks are not tracked automatically. To track a specific button, add a data-ye-event attribute:

<button data-ye-event="Subscribe">Subscribe to newsletter</button>
<button data-ye-event="Download guide">Download</button>

Only buttons with data-ye-event are tracked. All other buttons are always ignored. Choose labels that describe the action — avoid dynamic text like user names or account details.

Engagement signals

Scroll depth

Yegonota measures how far visitors scroll on each page — 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. This tells you how much of your content people actually read. No configuration needed.

Time on page

Yegonota measures how long visitors stay on each page. This is a signal of how engaged they are with your content. The measurement stops when the visitor leaves or switches tabs. No configuration needed.

What is never tracked

Yegonota never tracks:

What visitors type in forms or search boxes
Mouse movements or cursor position
Individual keystrokes
Buttons without a data-ye-event attribute
Anything that could identify an individual visitor

Privacy notes

Button and link labels are stored exactly as you write them. Avoid using dynamic or personalised text as event labels — for example, do not use a visitor's name or account details as a button label.

Email addresses in mailto links are never stored. They are converted to a short anonymous code before saving.

All event data is stored anonymously and linked to your site, not to individual visitors.

Turning off event tracking

You can disable specific event types for each site in your dashboard settings.

This is coming in a future update.