Does a java redirect screw up tracking?

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o hai guyz

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I have one media buy that pulls about 1000 clicks a day. The offer got shut down so I picked it up from another network and at the same time set up a java redirect so I could try out some different links without having to log in and edit the forwarding address and all that.

I'm showing significantly less clicks (in the offer stats) now than I was before. So far I've tested it on a couple new networks and had the same problem (low clicks) on both of them. I'm planning to set up a lander with Analytics so I can see if I'm still getting the old/high number of clicks and something is wrong with the tracking, or if the new/low number is correct and something happened with the site the ads are on.

Just wanted to ask here as well to see if using java could be screwing up my tracking or anything. This is basically all it is:

HTML: 
<html>
<head></head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript"> 

parent.window.location = 'http://linkhere.com';

</script> 

</body>
</html>
 


probably just a coincidence, java redirects are usually flawless unless they're mistakenly placed before any of the tracking coding. but if your code is really that simple there is really no way for anything to be going wrong unless its hosting related.

you could setup some tracking before the java redirect with something like 202 and makesure the user isnt Xing out before the redirect has a chance to fully load the new page and its tracking?
 
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