ssteynfaardt / gatrack

jQuery plugin for Google Analytics Event Tracking

#gaTrack

jQuery plugin for Google Analytics Event Tracking

Track events using data elements

<a  data-category="Downloads" 
    data-action="Left Click" 
    data-label="Monthly Statement" 
    href="monthly.csv">
    Download Monthly Statement
</a>

#Example code If we have the following HTML

<a class="track" href="http://google.com">Goto Google</a>
<a class="track" id="TopLogin" data-category="Website Logins" href="/login">Login</a>
<a class="track" id="signupBtn" data-label="Sign Up" data-action="click" data-category="Website Singups" href="/signup">Signup</a>

We setup or default tracking settings

var settings = {
  "category" : "External Links",
  "action" : "Clicked",
};

$('a.track').gaTrack(settings);

Now when we click on the links the following data will be tracked

Link	Category	Action	Label
Google	External Links	Clicked
Login	Website Logins	Clicked	TopLogin
Signup	Website Singups	click	Sign Up

#Setting Options

Name	Description	Default
category	For event tracking, a category is a name that you supply as a way to group objects that you want to track.	The current page title.
action	Use the action parameter to name the type of event or interaction you want to track for a particular web object. (e.g. ‘click,’ ‘download,’ ‘play,’ etc)	Click
label	With labels you can provide additional information for events that you want to track. (e.g. video title or the name of a file)	The element's ID attribute value
value	An integer that you can use to provide numerical data about the user event.
noninteraction	A boolean that when set to true, indicates that the event hit will not be used in bounce-rate calculation.
data_category	The data attribute used to get the value for category e.g. data-category="Videos"	category
data_action	The data attribute used to get the value for action e.g. data-action="Play"	action
data_label	The data attribute used to get the value for label e.g. data-label="Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up"	label
data_value	The data attribute used to get the value for value e.g. data-value="5"	value
data_noninteraction	The data attribute used to get the value for noninteraction e.g. data-noninteraction="false"	noninteraction

License

MIT-License:

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