I have a function that binds a function to all third party links within a website. It is working fine, however if someone clicks a link (which is tracked) then presses the back button in their browser and clicks another link that should be tracked, it is not tracked.

I this a known issue with document.ready?

    $(document).ready(function(){

          // sets an onclick event to call the tracking scrip
          $('a:external').bind('click',function(){ writeTracking(this.href)}, false)

          //debug, shows external links
          $('a:external').css('background-color',"yellow");

        }  // end function
      ); // end ready

Since using the back button doesn't really reload the page, and the bind's were already put into place, this one stumps me. I also have an AJAX call that could be the culprit. I just watched a tutorial on AJAX last week so I wouldn't even know where to begin if this was wrong.

    function writeTracking(linkHref){

      var url = "writeFile.cfm?writeUrl=" + linkHref;

    	if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
    		xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    	}
    	else {
    		if (window.ActiveXObject) {
    			try {
    				xhr = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0");
    			}
    			catch (e) { }
    		}
    	}

    	if (xhr) {
    		xhr.open("GET", url, true);
    		xhr.send(null);
    	}
    	else {
    		alert("Error");
    	}
    	return false;

    }

Another problem I manage to figure out on my own after I make a post... I never coded something to close the file after appending the data, so it could not write.