I have used _trackEvent for several links. But in google analytics it shows as 0 events and no tracking data are displayed.
Below is the code I used. Do I have to wait 24 hours to view the tracking data? or anything wrong with this?
<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/example/"
onClick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Links', 'Bags', 'Mainlinkbags']);"
target="_parent">
tracking code
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxx-x']);
_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)
();
Sometimes it is good practice to use "onmousedown" event instead of "onclick" because "onmousedown" is fired sooner, so GA script has more time to execute event tracking (it's only a few milliseconds difference, but can help). Try it.
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/event_onmousedown.asp
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Im working on setting up event tracking on a website, the user visits index.php, where he completes a quizz built with javascript, after answering each question i track the event with something like :
_gaq.push(['eventTracker._trackEvent', "myCategory", question_number.toString()]);
After the user completes the quizz he's redirected to another page : result.php where i track the landing event with :
_gaq.push(['eventTracker._trackEvent', 'myResult', myScore.toString()]);
The problem is that on analytics i can see the events with category = "myCategory" but not events with category "myResult".
Here is the code (this part is present in both index.php and result.php):
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-2']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); //an account for tracking page views
(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>
//the account we attach events to
_gaq.push(['eventTracker._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-3']);
//..... racking code as posted before
I have been running this code for some time now on all pages. This custom variable has never shown up.
Sorry to ask this again, I don't see another post that solves my case. This has to be the simplest case in the world, this is the same code with only the UA changed:
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12345678-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
_gaq.push(['_setCustomVar', 1, 'User', 'jc', 3]);
(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>
I did not modify the (function()...) .. Do you see the problem? I'm using slot 1 with the page level (3) scope. The same code appears on each page for a given user.
_setCustomVar does not trigger a request to GA. _trackPageview does. You have to move the _setCustomVar above the _trackPageview.
I am setting up a Javascript timer to grab the time-on-site for one page only with the following event tracking code:
(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);
})();
When I check the Network tab, there are outgoing pings to GA but in GA, there are no reports.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Google Analytics code in a web page usually consists of two parts:
Code to load the ga.js analytics code from google-analytics.com
Code to set the analytics account and specify what to track.
The code you've shown is only the first part which loads ga.js. You're missing the code telling Google Analytics what to do/track -- something like
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
It turned out that I needed to simply wait a duration of time before the event tracking turns on. Apparently, with GA, the time is quite variable.
I am trying to log the username of users who are using my system. Unfortunately, I couldn't track by using custom variables. I could track the page visit, but custom variable tracking is not working. Could you please help me? Thanks.
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-1']);
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']);
_gaq.push(['_setCustomVar',1,'UserName','JohnPaul',2]);
_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>
The code is correct and it does track the users now. I just used the similar codes as above and it works now. But I needed to wait 2 days to track the custom variables and it appears in my reports now.
For more than one user, you'll have to use PHP to output user names.
_gaq.push(['_setCustomVar', 1, 'UserName', '<?php get_usernames(); ?>',2]);
***Substitute "get_usernames" with the function for your site that retrieves the usernames.
I'm trying to set a custom variable in my Google Analytics tracking for a very rough form of split testing.
The code I'm using at the end of my 'head' section is
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(
['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxx-xx'],
['_setCustomVar', 1, 'split', '1', 2],
['_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);
})();
The page view is tracking fine but I'm not seeing anything other than "(not set)" under the User-defined sub-section of the Visitors section.
Can anyone spot anything wrong? I've had this working before using the older ga.js before the Asynchronous stuff came along.
Thanks.
_setCustomVar data shows up in the Visitors "Custom Variables" report. Only data from _setVar shows up in the "User Defined" report.