Track events to the active Page

[saschanowak]

If you have a SPA you want to track events to the actual pageView for better filtering in analytics. For Example: If you track the login button with a custom event and want to know on which page the user press it, you can't filter it because it gets always tracked on the first pageView.

The problem is that actual events will not be associated with virtual pages.

But i found a litte hacky solution on the web when I implemented the tracking for one of our customers:

Replace:

_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', url]);

with:

_gaq.push(['_set', 'page', url]);
_gaq.push(['_set', 'title', document.title]);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

I hope I could help with that.

Greetings Sascha

[mgonto]

Hey,

Thanks for the input!!

So, you say that the _trackPageview will not receive an URL now, is that intentional? Will it use the one set in page ??

I'll add this!

[saschanowak]

This article explain the problem in a much better way then I did ;)

http://www.e-nor.com/blog/google-analytics/reporting-accurate-funnels-in-google-analytics

[mgonto]

Understood, I'll implement this!