Does anyone have any experience with event tracking? (specifically on click)
This tutorial for 'on click' goal setting is confusing to me:
http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55527
I think this is the tutorial I need, but I don't have a lot of experience with Java Script, is this what I'm looking for?
Jump to PostEvent Tracking is a method available in the ga.js tracking code that you can use to record user interaction with website elements, such as a Flash-driven menu system. This is accomplished by attaching the method call to the particular UI element you want to track. When used …
Does anyone have any experience with event tracking? (specifically on click)
This tutorial for 'on click' goal setting is confusing to me:
http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55527I think this is the tutorial I need, but I don't have a lot of experience with Java Script, is this what I'm looking for?
Event Tracking is a feature of Google Analytics you use to track different actions visitors take on your website, such as clicking a button or downloading a file. It is useful for tracking actions on your website that don't take the user to a new page (such as clicking play on a video player).
Have you ever set a goal in GA for clicking an outbound link?
I am having trouble following the above tutorial and I'm not sure where I am going wrong.
I think it has something to do with the javascript.
It should be simple!
Event Tracking is a method available in the ga.js tracking code that you can use to record user interaction with website elements, such as a Flash-driven menu system. This is accomplished by attaching the method call to the particular UI element you want to track. When used this way, all user activity on such elements is calculated and displayed as Events in the Analytics reporting interface. Additionally, pageview calculations are unaffected by user activity tracked using the Event Tracking method. Finally, Event Tracking employs an object-oriented model that you can use to collect and classify different types of interaction with your web page objects.
By contrast, tracking web page objects using the urchin.js tracking code requires virtual URL creation and provides no object hierarchy. With the legacy urchin.js code, user interaction with page objects is calculated and displayed as part of total page views to your site, and no distinction is made between actual and virtual pageviews.
With ga.js, you would commonly apply Event Tracking to:
* Any Flash-driven element, like a Flash website, or a Flash Movie player
* Embedded AJAX page elements
* Page gadgets
* File downloads
* Load times for data
This document assumes familiarity with Google Analytics Tracking Code (GATC) configuration. Additionally, you must have the ga.js tracking code installed on those pages where you configure Event Tracking as described here. For more information on tracking your site using the GATC, see the Tracking Sites guide as well as the documentation in the Analytics Concepts section of this site.
I have it available on a few of my sites and it works like a charm. I use it mainly to track PDF downloads and Email links.
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