Disable clkn Wrapper

Any progress on this? @sberman is absolutely right that this breaks Google Analytics cross-domain tracking.

If the button has a tel instead of https you would need to update the script to search for that string instead.

Try this if you are using a tel link. You may need to make some changes to the replace function below, but this should get you started.

<script>
lp.jQuery(function() { $('a[href]').each(function() {
	$(this).attr('href', $(this).attr('href')
	.replace(/^\S*clk(n|g)\/https\//gi, 'https://')
	.replace(/^\S*clk(n|g)\/tel\//gi, 'tel:')
	.replace(/^\S*clk(n|g)\/http\//gi, 'http://'));
	});
});
</script>

Worked like a charm! Thanks so much, @sberman.

For anyone else’s reference, I placed this script before the closing body tag

Hi Jess, thanks very much for the response, but too bad no better solution yet! Please do let us know if something else becomes available.

Hi @Andy2,

Unfortunately, if you remove the wrappers from the links you will lose tracking through Unbounce.

However, I would still highly recommend using GA for any test check ups or post test analysis. The granularity of data you can get from GA is light years ahead of anything else.

To make it easier you can setup custom reports/dashboards or do a quick Google Data Studio report.

Best,
Hristian

Hey folks,

I’ve seen many people having issues trying to implement the script to remove Unbounce’s clkn/clkg wrapper from their pages. This could be related to Unbounce’s removal of our jQuery dependency, so to make it easier to troubleshoot if you encounter an issue, here it goes a few suggestions:

• Make sure you are adding the jQuery CDN to your page. You can find how to do that here, as @dnlrose has mentioned on the comments.

• In case you are using the script that starts with lp.jQuery(function... you might need to remove the lp. from your script since Unbounce won’t store jQuery in the lp variable anymore. In this case, you can go ahead and use the script like the one below:

   <script>
   $(function($) {
       $('a[href]').each(function(){
       $(this).attr('href',
       $(this).attr('href')
       .replace(/clk(n|g)\/https\//, 'https://')
       .replace(/clk(n|g)\/http\//, 'http://')
       .replace(/clk(n|g)\/tel\//, 'tel:'));
       });
     });
  </script>
  
  

• You can also choose to remove the wrapper from an individual element on your page, using the script below:

        <script>
        (function(){
          // ID of button to remove Unbounce default tracking wrapper
          var btnId = $("#lp-pom-button-38");
          
          // Add URL to redirect the click
          var url = 'https://unsplash.com/wallpapers/cute/pug';
          
          // Change to true if you want to track the click as a goal
          var goal = false;
          
          btnId.attr('href', url);
          if (goal) {
            window.trackConversion = function() {
              $('body').append('<iframe src="clkg/http/unbouncepages.com/blankpage/" style="display: none"> </iframe>');
            };
            $(function($) {
              $(btnId).click(function () {
                trackConversion();
              });
            });
          }
        })();
        </script>

PS: Unfortunately, these scripts won’t work if you have the pass through URL parameters checked on Unbounce.

Hope that helps.

🙂

Hi Andi,

Curious to know why you would need this ability. 🙂

Mark

Hi Folks! 
There isn’t any way to disable the  clkn wrapper at this time, as we use those clkn and clkg wrappers to keep track of stats for links and then use a 300-redirect once the appropriate count is fired back to Unbounce. Can you let us know if you’re running into any issues with these wrappers and reaching your goal? 

Any update here on disabling the clkn wrapper?

Does anyone know if there are any new workarounds from Unbounce for this? I would like to implement cross domain tracking, but I cannot afford to lose tracking of conversions in Unbounce.

@Hristian You’re right, I could track in GA (and do at times). My choice of words (" I cannot afford to lose tracking of conversions in Unbounce") perhaps too dramatic. But it also wouldn’t be NEARLY as easy as simply viewing results in Unbounce.

The loss of convenience would still be significant.

@Raphael_Walker, This script worked excellently. The other script gave me quite a few issues, like you said. Thanks again.