Google analytics not tracking outbound links - google-analytics

Question

I've got the following code in the head which isn't tracking outbound links:
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxxxx-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>
<script>
/**
* Function that tracks a click on an outbound link in Google Analytics.
* This function takes a valid URL string as an argument, and uses that URL string
* as the event label.
*/
var trackOutboundLink = function(url) {
ga('send', 'event', 'outbound', 'click', url, {'hitCallback':
function () {
document.location = url;
}
});
}
</script>
And have added the event tracking on outbound links as stated on the analytics site:
onclick="trackOutboundLink('/WEBSITE/www.something.com')
What am I doing wrong? No outbound links are being tracked.
Update - changed the tracking code to universal; which event outbound tracking do I use?
<!-- Google Analytics -->
<script>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
ga('create', 'UA-xxxx-Y', 'auto');
ga('send', 'pageview');
</script>
<!-- End Google Analytics -->

Answer 1

uname12, the issue is that you are mixing "old" Google Analytics tracking code and "new" Universal Analytics tracking code syntax.
UPDATE to my original answer to reflect changes to original question:
I would try using the correct address, so instead of:
onclick="trackOutboundLink('/WEBSITE/www.something.com')
try this:
onclick="trackOutboundLink('http://www.something.com')
ORIGINAL answer:
That's the reason why the tracking doesn't work. Here is the correct documentation for event tracking (always look GA.js).
If you change your code to something like this:
var trackOutboundLink = function(url) {
_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Outbound', 'Click', this.href]);
setTimeout('document.location = "' + this.href + '"', 100);
return false;
}
That should do the trick.
Hope this helps :-)