Question

I have a problem where I can get tracking to work fine, however I cannot seem to get events to work.

We have a DNN website that contains our Online Member Services, the user has the option to be a new member which starts the membership application process. This has been written so that it swaps in the required controls for each step, so the URL doesn’t change for the 7 different controls used. This causes us the issue that we can’t track the pages.

So with that general background, I thought we could use even tracking instead. No perhaps I haven’t correctly set this up, so here is the following code.

<script type='text/javascript'>
        var _gaq = _gaq || [];
        _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-28551246-1']);
        _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>

which is the standard account info and setup script. I’m trying to track given the folling example on the googles pages

<button onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'button3', 'clicked'])"></button>

Any assistance would be great.

Answer 1

Had a similar problem. You could append to the URL using something like:

window.location.hash = '#/' + pageNumber;

and then use this in GA:

_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', location.pathname + location.search + location.hash]);