GA Event Tracker - not working?

Has anyone managed to use the GA event tracker sucessfully?

I am having poblems and am seeking suggestions. I have the GA code on the header of the pages and am using the event tracker code below

<a href="http://www.mydomain/mydoc.pdf" target="_blank" onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.mydomain/mydoc.pdf.pdf');">

Can anyone see a problem with this code? ... below is the main page header code I am using ...

<script type="text/javascript">

var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-1780XXX0-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();

</script>

Thanks

gordano

 

When you attach an onclick event, you don't include the protocol (javascript:...) in there.

replace this

onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.mydomain/mydoc.pdf.pdf');"

Code (markup):

with this

onclick="return pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.mydomain/mydoc.pdf.pdf') ? true : true;"

Code (markup):

I include the "return" to make sure that javascript executes before the visitor navigates away from the page.

 

Joebert

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried this but still showing zero events tracked.

It is puzzling me, if anyone on this forum can check the code and fix this for me I'll pay $10