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Based on the Capture outbound links documentation, this site capture all external link created with a anchor with this snippet.
jQuery(function () {
jQuery('a.urlextern, a.interwiki').click(function () { // urlextern and interwiki are classes set for outbound link that we want to track
var url = this.href;
if(ga && ga.loaded){
e.preventDefault();
ga('send', 'event', 'outbound', 'click', url, {
'transport': 'beacon',
'hitCallback': function(){
// Doc: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/sending-hits#hitcallback
if (target !== '_blank') {
document.location = url;
}
}
});
}
});
});
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In google analytics, you can see them in the behavior section.
Example with the outbound links to amazon