How to track clicks on outbound links

Question

[cross-posted on Google Products Forum http://productforums.google.com/d/topic/analytics/ZrB14a-6gqI/discussion ]

I am using the following code at http

Answer 1

Set a longer timeout 2 seconds maybe, as it takes a certain amout of time for the _gaq.push to actually push to the server, and 100 milliseconds isnt long enough for it to send (the push gets cancelled as soon as the document.location changes). Unless _gaq.push uses a blocking call (doesnt execute the next line till the push is complete), but i dont think that is the case i think most of that uses asynchronous requests.