Google Analytics onClick发送事件

Question

I asked a question on the Webmasters Stack Exchange about how to track which users were clicking on an application login URL on our website.

The set up is that I have a website, https://www.example.com and a web application on a subdomain, https://app.example.com/login.php .

Both sites have the same Google Analytics tracking code installed.

In the navigation on https://www.example.com I have a URL to the login page of the web application:

<a href="https://app.example.com/login.php">Login</a>

All I'm trying to do is show in Analytics who has clicked on this link.

So one of the answers given involves using Events. I've read both Google's Event Tracking documentation and Google Analytics Event Tracking onClick Code but I can't get this to work programatically.

I've tried adding an onClick to my anchor as follows:

<a href="https://app.example.com/login.php" onClick="ga('send', 'event', 'Web Application', 'Login', 'Logged in via public website'); ">Login</a>

This doesn't seem to record anything in Analytics - nothing is showing up under Events, including the Real Time data section.

However, I'm not convinced this works from a programatic perspective because if I run the ga() command in my browser console:

ga('send', 'event', 'Web Application', 'Login', 'Logged in via public website')

It just returns undefined . I don't understand this as my website has the Analytics tracking code installed, and already uses things such as ga('send', 'pageview'); . There is loads of data in Analytics for the website, so clearly it is running.

I feel like this - and all of the documentation - is really complicated to do what should be a very simple task. Please can someone enlighten me as to how (or indeed if) this is possible?

Answer 1

Your code:

ga('send', 'event', 'Web Application', 'Login', 'Logged in via public website')

From the Documentation events

eventCategory text yes Typically the object that was interacted with (eg 'Video')

eventAction text yes The type of interaction (eg 'play')

eventLabel text no Useful for categorizing events (eg 'Fall Campaign')

eventValue integer no A numeric value associated with the event (eg 42)

The last value is an int not a string 'Logged in via public website' is not valid

ga('send', 'event', 'Web Application', 'Login', 42)