Track Downloads and Other Click Events in Analytics with jQuery
The old way to track clicks and outbound links in Google Analytics was to call the _trackPageview function on the click event, passing it a label that could then be searched for in Analytics. One of the problems with this method was that the clicks were counted as pageviews, affecting your total pageview number.
Now Analytics offers an event tracking feature. It can be used to track downloads, outbound links, mailto links, AJAX events—any click event. But the event tracking function still has to be implemented for each event you want to track. Here’s some jQuery that handles the implementation for you.
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