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Asked: 2026-06-01T09:39:59+00:00

Inspecting _utm.gif I’ve determined the Extensible Parameter utme is not being passed. I don’t

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Inspecting _utm.gif I’ve determined the Extensible Parameter utme is not being passed. I don’t see it at all when I inspect it with Firebug. I’m trying to track an event with Google Analytics – a simple button click.

The Google code in <head>.

<script type="text/javascript">

  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1']);  //in reality, this ID is set correctly
  _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>

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

The code I use in the <body>

<a onClick="recordOutboundLink(this, 'button', 'clicked');return false;" href="http://someoutboundlink.com">
<img src="http://some-image.png">
</a>

What am I missing? Why aren’t my params button and clicked being passed in the _utm.gif?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your function is wrong. Just because you named your tracker variable myTracker it’s not the internal name of the tracker. In your case you use a nameless tracker. And the correct way to fire an event for it is just calling _trackEvent.

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