Question

I’m trying to record the url of a page when a user clicks a submit button using google analytics event trackers.

I have found a javascript function that should do the job but i cannot get it to work. Any suggestions?

I have dropped this is the underneath the google analytic s snippit.

function recordOutboundLink(link, category, action) {  
    try {  
        var myTracker=_gat._getTrackerByName();  
        _gaq.push(['myTracker._trackEvent', ' + category + ', ' + action + ']);  
        setTimeout('document.location = "' + link.href + '"', 100)  
    }catch(err){}  
}  

And Added this to the sumbit button.

<a href="/confirmation.html" onClick="recordOutboundLink(this, 'Outbound Links', 'example.com'); return false;">

but google anayltics isn’t recording anything.

Answer 1

Several problems with the _trackEvent call — The syntax for the async version should be

`_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', category, action]);`

Also, it looks like you’re mixing old style analytics code with with async style code — you don’t need to use _getTrackerByName in this case.

Try the following version:

function recordOutboundLink(link, category, action) {  
    try {  
        _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', category, action]);
        setTimeout('document.location = "' + link.href + '"', 100)  
    }catch(err){}  
}