Conversion tracking require a Business plan subscription or higher.
When it comes to conversion tracking, a lead event happens when a user performs an action that indicates interest in your product or service. This could be anything from:
  • Signing up for an account
  • Adding a product to cart
  • Joining a mailing list
A diagram showing how lead events are tracked in the conversion funnel

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Prerequisites

Before you get started, make sure you follow the Dub Conversions quickstart guide to get Dub Conversions set up for your links:
  1. Enable conversion tracking for your links

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Quickstart

1

Generate your publishable key

Before you can track conversions on the client-side, you need to generate a publishable key from your Dub workspace.To do that, navigate to your workspace’s Analytics settings page and generate a new publishable key under the Publishable Key section.
Enabling conversion tracking for a workspace
2

Allowlist your site's domain

Then, you’ll need to allowlist your site’s domain to allow the client-side conversion events to be ingested by Dub.To do that, navigate to your workspace’s Analytics settings page and add your site’s domain to the Allowed Hostnames list.This provides an additional layer of security by ensuring only authorized domains can track conversions using your publishable key.
Enabling conversion tracking for a workspace
You can group your hostnames when adding them to the allow list:
  • example.com: Tracks traffic only from example.com.
  • *.example.com: Tracks traffic from all subdomains of example.com, but not from example.com itself.
When testing things out locally, you can add localhost to the Allowed Hostnames list temporarily. This will allow local events to be ingested by Dub. Don’t forget to remove it once you’re ready to go live!
3

Install @dub/analytics package

Next, install the Dub analytics script in your application.You can install the @dub/analytics script in several different ways:

React

Add Dub Analytics to your React app

Manual installation

Add Dub Analytics to your website

Google Tag Manager

Add Dub Analytics via GTM

Framer

Add Dub Analytics to your Framer site

Shopify

Add Dub Analytics to your Shopify store

WordPress

Add Dub Analytics to your WP site

Webflow

Add Dub Analytics to your Webflow site
You must configure the publishable key you generated in step 1 when installing the analytics script. Without this key, client-side conversion tracking will not work.
import { Analytics as DubAnalytics } from '@dub/analytics/react';

export default function RootLayout({
  children,
}) {
  return (
    <html lang="en">
      <body className={inter.className}>{children}</body>
      <DubAnalytics
        ...
        publishableKey="dub_pk_xxxxxxxx" // Replace with your publishable key
      />
    </html>
  );
}

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Client-side lead tracking

Once the analytics script is installed, you can start tracking lead events in your application on the client-side. Here are the quickstart examples for tracking lead events: 
import { useAnalytics } from "@dub/analytics/react";
import { useState } from "react";

export function SignUpForm() {
  const { trackLead } = useAnalytics();
  const [name, setName] = useState("");
  const [email, setEmail] = useState("");
  const handleSubmit = (e: React.FormEvent) => {
    e.preventDefault();

    // Track the lead event
    trackLead({
      eventName: "Sign Up",
      customerExternalId: email,
      customerName: name,
      customerEmail: email,
    });
  };

  return (
    <form onSubmit={handleSubmit}>
      <input
        type="text"
        value={name}
        onChange={(e) => setName(e.target.value)}
        required
      />
      <input
        type="email"
        value={email}
        onChange={(e) => setEmail(e.target.value)}
        required
      />
      <button type="submit">Sign Up</button>
    </form>
  );
}
Here’s the full list of attributes you can pass when sending a lead event:
PropertyRequiredDescription
clickIdYesThe unique dub_id parameter that the lead conversion event is attributed to.
eventNameYesThe name of the event. Example: “Sign up”.
customerExternalIdYesThe unique ID of the customer in your system. Will be used to identify and attribute all future events to this customer.
customerEmailNoThe email address of the customer. If not passed, a random email address will be generated.
customerNameNoThe name of the customer. If not passed, a random name will be generated (e.g. “Big Red Caribou”).
customerAvatarNoThe avatar URL of the customer. If not passed, a random avatar URL will be generated.
When to track leads You should track lead events after successful user actions such as:
  • User registration or account creation
  • Newsletter subscription
  • Contact form submission
  • Demo request or trial signup
  • Download of gated content
Ensure the event is triggered only after the backend confirms the action was completed successfully. This guarantees accurate lead data and prevents false or incomplete entries.
Client-side conversion tracking comes with some limitations:
  • Ad blockers: Users with ad blockers may prevent tracking scripts from loading
  • JavaScript disabled: Events won’t be tracked if users have JavaScript disabled
  • Network issues: Failed network requests won’t retry automatically
  • Privacy concerns: Some users may block client-side tracking for privacy reasons
For more accurate conversion tracking, consider using server-side conversion tracking.

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View your conversions

Once you’ve completed the setup, all your tracked conversions will show up in Dub Analytics. We provide 3 different views to help you understand your conversions:
Time-series line chart
  • Funnel chart: A funnel chart view visualizing the conversion & dropoff rates across the different steps in the conversion funnel (clicks → leads → sales).
Funnel chart view showing the conversion & dropoff rates from clicks → leads → sales
  • Real-time events stream: A real-time events stream of every single conversion event that occurs across all your links in your workspace.
The Events Stream dashboard on Dub