Tag archives: Tracking

Click Tracking [Google Analytics]

Event Tracking

<script>
/**
* Function that tracks a click on a link in Google Analytics.
* This function takes a valid URL string as an argument, and uses that URL string
* as the event label. Setting the transport method to 'beacon' lets the hit be sent
* using 'navigator.sendBeacon' in browser that support it.
*/
var trackLink = function(url) {
   ga('send', 'event', 'link', 'click', url, {
     'transport': 'beacon',
     'hitCallback': function(){document.location = url;}
   });
}
</script>

On Page Implementation

<a href="http://www.example.com" onclick="trackLink('http://www.example.com'); return false;">Visit example.com</a>

 

Cross Domain Tracking [ Google Analytics ]

Cross Domain Tracking in Google Analytics is for tracking a Visitor across different domains

Usage

Tracking the same visitor navigating across

  1. Various Domain names
  2. Various Sub Domains
  3. http and https of the same/different domain
  4. 3rd Party Shopping Carts
  5. IFrame

Linking

( Example )

Consider two domains :

  1. example-1.com : Primary Domain
  2. example-2.com : Secondary Domain

Primary Domain

<script>

(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXX-Y', 'auto', {'allowLinker': true});
ga('require', 'linker');
ga('linker:autoLink', ['example-2.com'] );
ga('send', 'pageview');

</script>

Secondary Domain

<script>

(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXX-Y', 'auto', {'allowLinker': true});
ga('require', 'linker');
ga('linker:autoLink', ['example-1.com'] );
ga('send', 'pageview');

</script>

Three  or More Domains

ga('linker:autoLink', ['example-2.com', 'example-3.com'] );