Redirects through with 0.5 seconds delay don't show

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Hi,
My webflow website has pages with a redirect in the custom code, with a 0.5 delay so that they still show up as page visits. Since a while, they don’t show anymore. Any idea why?

2

Somehow, it seems to work now. Don’t know whether this was a temporary bug, or the functionality was restored in the meantime.

3

You should never expect analytics data to be send when just waiting .5 seconds.

Maybe this works?

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <title>Track and redirect</title>
    <!-- 1. Placeholder snippet + trackAndRedirect in a single script -->
    <script>
      // Simple Analytics placeholder
      window.sa_event = window.sa_event || function () {
        const args = [].slice.call(arguments)
        if (window.sa_event.q) {
          window.sa_event.q.push(args)
        } else {
          window.sa_event.q = [args]
        }
      }

      /**
       * @param {string} eventName - The name of the Simple Analytics event.
       * @param {string} redirectUrl - The URL to redirect to.
       * @return {void}
       */
      const trackAndRedirect = async ({ eventName, redirectUrl }) => {
        let redirected = false

        const doRedirect = () => {
          if (!redirected) {
            redirected = true
            window.location.href = redirectUrl
          }
        }

        const timeout = setTimeout(doRedirect, 3000)

        try {
          if (window.sa_loaded) {
            window.sa_event(eventName, () => {
              clearTimeout(timeout)
              doRedirect()
            })
          } else {
            clearTimeout(timeout)
            doRedirect()
          }
        } catch (error) {
          clearTimeout(timeout)
          doRedirect()
        }
      }

      // Example usage
      window.addEventListener("load", () => {
        trackAndRedirect({
          eventName: "clicked_signup",
          redirectUrl: "https://example.com"
        })
      })
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <!-- 2. Simple Analytics script -->
    <script async src="https://scripts.simpleanalyticscdn.com/latest.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>
4

Hey Adriaan,
thanks for your reply. It somehow works again; I’ve set a delay on the webflow page and it shows in SA. :slight_smile: