Question

I know this is not the only question out there, but I still couldn’t find a hint on what’s wrong.

The javascript:

$(function()
{
  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-[FILTERED]-1']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  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);


    $('a[href$=pdf]').each( function() { $(this).attr('target', '_blank'); });
    $('a[href$=pdf]').on('click', function()    { _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Link', 'Click', $(this).attr('href'), 1]); });

});

SO, when inspecting the generated source code (through the webdevelopment toolbar in FF), the javascript libraries are inserted in the following order:

1. ga
2. jquery
3. the page js with the content seen above (1:1)

I don’t get any errors in firebug, page tracking is working fine and inserting debug output after the .push also works, so no “ghost stop”.

I tried to click some pdf files every day for 3 days, and there is nothing in GA registered.

Any ideas?

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edit
I tried to debug it with ga_debug.js. Firebug shows the requested images for _trackPageview, but not for _trackEvent. So I tried the following:

$('a[href$=pdf]').each( function() 
{ 
    $(this).attr('target', '_blank'); 
    $(this).attr('onClick', "javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Link', 'Click', $(this).attr('href'), 1]);");
});

Now the images is requested, but according to firebug, loads forever and won’t complete.

Answer 1

Problem solved, apparently you cannot oursource the _gaq part into a file and include it. Adding it directly into the html template works.