knowit / federales

Google Analytics helpers to hunt down and track links that aren't automatically tracked by Google Analytics.

Federales

Google Analytics helpers to hunt down and track links that aren't automatically tracked by Google Analytics.

Development of this project has been sponsored by

Installation

Include jQuery and federales.js in your site.

Examples

// Track elements with a specific selector providing a label.
track('Thing', 'Special thing', '.special', 'Some value');

// Leave out label to get one automatically depending on element type.
track('Thing', 'E-mail', '.email');

// Curry if tracking a bunch of similar things.
var trackThings = track.bind(track, 'Things');
trackThings('subthing', '.thing', 'Value');

Methods

track('Thing', 'Special thing', '.special', 'Some value');

track(prefix, category, selector, [label])

Track all elements matching selector sending prefix and category to Google Analytics as a category in the format prefix - category. If label isn't supplied one will be taken from the element based on the type IE mailto links will have the target email address as a label.

Todo

• Docs for label generating
• Tests
• Automatic link discovery

License

Copyright 2012 Knowit

MIT