Download stats in Google Analytics broken

[rbouckaert]

Goal statistics in Google Analytics stopped at switch over to Jekyll, so somehow links do not get properly tracked.
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1136920?hl=en talks about tracking "events" instead of "goals", though is easy to implement.
Events can be found in analytics under Behviour/Events.

[rbouckaert]

According to https://validator.w3.org/checklink, links pointing to releases on github are blocked by robots.txt:

Status: (N/A) Forbidden by robots.txt
The link was not checked due to robots exclusion rules. Check the link manually. 

However, there is no robots.txt explicitly defined for the site, so it must be something github adds (though http://www.beast2.org/robots.txt goes to the 404.html page). Perhaps this has something to do with why the events defined for downloads are not tracked.

[rbouckaert]

For each download, there is now a separate page (which also contains trouble shooting info) for each OS and with/without JRE. Google analytics already tracks page downloads. Every page automatically downloads a release version, so page counts = download counts.