Use beacons in trackLinks for supporting browsers
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Currently trackLinks adds a 300ms timeout to links to allow enough time for the analytics to fire, but beacons solves this issue without the performance overhead + all modern browsers now support it (https://caniuse.com/#search=beacon)
I'd love to see beacon support added (with the 300ms timeout left for unsupporting browsers).
Additionally, what do you guys think about adding a new trackLink function that can be added directly as an onclick to a link (rather than requiring a selector)? I feel like this API would be nicer for devs building out component-architected UI's.
So I've been digging around through the analytics source-code and it looks like this might be trickier than I originally thought, since I think trackLinks is actually just an abstraction around emitting "track" events - which are implemented by specific integrations, and could be black boxes of sync logic.
Has anyone looked into this before?
Hi Alex,
I do think it would be tricky due to our integrations. However, we're looking to rethink how we do analytics.js to improve it's performance later this year
That's great to hear - looking forward to updates