Google Analytics won't track a visit to a page unless that page runs the analytics tracking code. Although, there are at least 2 ways to track the redirects:
-Tracking a redirect using 301 redirect.
-Tracking a redirect using a JavaScript redirect.
In both instances, make sure the directory actually exists as a file (/it/growthmodel.aspx). I always use the JavaScript redirect so, let's talk about it:
Let say, you have a pdf file (growthmodel.pdf), you want to post it online and also want to count the number of visitors and their behaviours. For this, create a page growthmodel.aspx under the /it directory and redirect this page to pdf file using javascript redirect. Put the below code at growthmodel.aspx page:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXX-X']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'category', 'action', 'opt_label'])">
<script type="text/javascript">
function redirect()
{
window.location = "/growthmodel.pdf"
}
var temp = setInterval("redirect()", 1000);
</script>
</body>
</html>
setInterval=> 1000 so that tracking doesn't get missed.
'UA-XXXXXX-X' => please replace xxxx with your actual analytics account number.
Happy Programming!!
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