Outbound link tracking not working

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  • doublemilkplus

    (@doublemilkplus)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    I am having this same issue-
    From what i’ve read, the event does not register if the link is loaded before the mouse button is released-

    supposedly this can be solved by changing the onClick to onMouseDown
    in the javascript for the event tracking, but aside from manually inserting it in your page with html, I believe the creator would have to update from his end.

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

    doublemilkplus

    (@doublemilkplus)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    ok,
    i’ve tried modifying the plugin via the dashboard
    plugins -> editor ->
    select plugin to edit “google analytics”
    and select google-analytics-for-wordpress/frontend/class-frontend.php
    find and replace all 8 instances of “onclick” with “onmousedown”

    and hit update file…

    it looks as though the source for all my pages is updated properly, but I have to wait 24 hours to see if the tracking is working properly- i’ll update you when i know

    Thread Starter maxmint

    (@maxmint)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Great, thanks! Looking forward to your report.

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