GAS outbound tracking and timeout

[chook]

The official Google documentation suggests a small timeout before tracking outbounds. How does the GAS implementation tackles this workaround navigation?

I want to implement an onclick custom variable set for a few links and was wondering if I can leverage GAS without throwing my own timeout implementation

[tomfuertes]

Depending on the type of links you can look in (below) to see how it's tracked.

https://github.com/CardinalPath/gas/blob/master/src/plugins/html_markup.js

https://github.com/CardinalPath/gas/blob/master/src/plugins/mailto.js

https://github.com/CardinalPath/gas/blob/master/src/plugins/multidomain.js

https://github.com/CardinalPath/gas/blob/master/src/plugins/outbound.js

To my knowledge GAS uses no delay, but mousedown vs onclick per the findings here:

http://www.cardinalpath.com/experiment-onclick-vs-onmousedown-event-tracking-in-google-analytics/

[googleanalyticsresoneo]

We could also use the hitCallback syntax

_gaq.push(['_set', 'hitCallback', function() {
    _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'foo','bar', 'foo bar', undefined, true]);
    _gaq.push(['_set', 'hitCallback', undefined]);
}]);

but needs to handle the case where ga.js is disabled by adblockers / opt-out plugins and similar

[tomfuertes]

Good call @googleanalyticsresoneo! PR Welcome on this. GAS would handle the ga.js disabled / opt-out automatically as the hooks/code don't run unless the ga.js file loads - asynchronous function queuing.