After upgrade from 1.6 to 1.7 Google Analytics stop counting outgoing hits.

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hass’s picture

Category: bug » support
Status: Active » Fixed

Nope, read the release notes and take a look into "Events".

racakg’s picture

Thank you for the answer, but Event Tracking is still in Beta, and therefore, is not available in all Google accounts.

update: i find the way how to see Event Tracking pages in accounts that doesn't have Event links enabled.

https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/events

hass’s picture

Title: Event Tracking results may not yet visible in Google Analytics account » Problem with outgoing hits
Status: Closed (fixed) » Fixed

No, since a week or two it seems to be finally public. In my account it wasn't shown when I started developing and testing and now it is shown as normal menu item, but it appeared first 1-2 days before the latest GA release and ~2 weeks after I've used it first for tracking. Otherwise see http://groups.google.com/group/analytics-help-troubleshoot/browse_thread....

racakg’s picture

I don't see event links in my meny bar for now. Adding a report to the dashboard looks good.

Anonymous’s picture

The Event Tracking feature is getting available in all account progressively, it would be a great feature to get a more accurate measurement in Google Analytics.
In this blog there's a jquery code to track events:
For outbound clicks

$('a').click(function() {
  var $a = $(this);
  var href = $a.attr('href');
 
  // see if the link is external
  if ( (href.match(/^http/)) && (! href.match(document.domain)) ) {
 
    // if so, register an event
    var category = 'outgoing'; // set this to whatever you want
    var event = 'click'; // set this to whatever you want
    var label = href; // set this to whatever you want
 
    pageTracker._trackEvent(category, event, href);
  }
});

For file downloads

var fileTypes = ['doc','xls','pdf','mp3'];
 
$('a').click(function() {
  var $a = $(this);
  var href = $a.attr('href');
  var hrefArray = href.split('.');
  var extension = hrefArray[hrefArray.length - 1];
 
  if ($.inArray(extension,fileTypes) != -1) {
      pageTracker._trackEvent('download', extension, href);
  }
 
});

Hope it helps

hass’s picture

@jmesam: Event tracking is already implemented in the latest versions.

hass’s picture

Title: Problem with outgoing hits » Event Tracking results may not yet visible in Google Analytics account
Anonymous’s picture

Oops! I should have to write on the chalkboard 100 times!

I will read twice the release notes before submit a feature request

;-)

hass’s picture

Yeah, go for it :-)))

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.