Question

I found this on the web:

$('a[href^=http]:not("[href*=://' + document.domain + ']")').click(function() {
 pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/' + $(this).attr('href'));
});

But it’s not working. In my Google Analytics account there are no /outgoing/ links showing (it’s been 24+ hours since I implemented it).

What’s wrong with this code? I’m using jQuery of course 😉

I already have:

<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
try {
  var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA MY CODE");
  pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}
</script>

Answer 1

Try (note the double quotes for attribute values and not for :not()):

$('a[href^="http"]:not([href*="://' + document.domain + '"])').click(function() {
    pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/' + $(this).attr('href'));
});

Also, are your links static (on the HTML page) or dynamic (generated by JavaScript)? If you add links after this code you will need to call this code again to attach the click event handler.