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Google Analytics track all outbound links with no markup change
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| // listen for all clicks on anything. You could change document to a selector like #content to make it more efficient. | |
| $(document).on('click', function( e ) { | |
| // if this is a link, and the href does not contain our domain, it's an external link. Track it. | |
| if( e.target.href && e.target.href.indexOf( window.location.hostname ) < 0 ) { | |
| ga('send', 'event', { | |
| eventCategory: 'Outbound Link', | |
| eventAction: 'click', | |
| eventLabel: e.target.href, // the outbound link url will appear as the event label in GA. Find under Behavior -> Events -> Event Label | |
| transport: 'beacon' // not supported in some versions of IE | |
| }); | |
| } | |
| }); |
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does it still work with the new analytics 4 version? Seems not to work for me. i'm from germany we have special law for google analytics coul this be the problem? thank you