This section gives instructions on how to set up and use Event Tracking in the Statistics feature.
Track visitor interactions on your website with the Event Tracking option. This lets you add event tracking to any clickable element on your web pages, for example, buttons, links, drop-down menus, and widgets. In the Acquia Optimize UI, you can see how many times visitors click on a tracked element.
One Click = One Event. For example, if the same user interacts with the item 10 times, it is counted as 10 events.
To track events on your website, the following requirements must be fulfilled:
The script has to be present on your website.
For more information, see the user guide article:
The Statistics feature has to be enabled. The instructions are in the Setup section of this document.
For more information, see the user guide article:
onclick="window.monsido_functions.trackEvent('Category', 'Action', 'Event', 1);"To classify an event, assign a category, action, and name.
For example, you may have Contact Us buttons in various places on your website and would like to track how many people actually click them. For the Contact Us button on the Home page, you could classify it as follows:
The code to add to the "Contact Us" button from this example looks like this:
onclick="window.monsido_functions.trackEvent('Contact', 'Contact Us button', 'Click Contact Us button on Home page', 1);"If the same button is on a different page, for example, your Privacy Policy page, use the following classification for that element:
This is how the above configuration appears in the Acquia Optimize UI when the event data starts to come in:
Open the CMS (website builder software) and find the HTML code for the "Book a demo" button. In this example, the code looks like this:
<a href="https://example.com/demo">
<button class="header-btn" type="button">
Book a demo
</button> </a>Copy the code snippet as given above and paste it inside the <button> element of your code. It should look like this:
<a href="https://example.com/demo">
<button class="header-btn" type="button"
onclick="window.monsido_functions.trackEvent
('Category', 'Action', 'Event', 1);">
Book a demo
</button> </a>Specify a Category, Action, and Event that you want this event to be tracked as. These will show up inside the Acquia Optimize UI and help you understand the data.
In our example below, we set the Category to "Conversion", the Action to "Book a demo", and the Event to "Website header button clicked". The final code should look like this:
<a href="https://example.com/demo">
<button class="header-btn" type="button"
onclick="window.monsido_functions.trackEvent
('Conversion', 'Book a demo', 'Website header button clicked', 1);">
Book a demo
</button> </a>To view the Events data, log in and navigate to the Statistics module > Content > Events. There you can see all the events data that are tracked on your website. Be aware that in some cases it can take up to 24 hours before tracked data is displayed in the application.
The number in the Events column indicates how many times the selected element has been clicked.
This section gives instructions on how to navigate to Event Tracking in the Statistics module.
Navigate to the dashboard for the domain.
From the menu on the left, click Content. The menu expands.
From the expanded menu, click Events.
The Events page opens by default to the Categories view.
From the options on the top right side of the window, click Categories.
The Categories view is a table with the following headers:
One Click = One Event. For example, if the same user interacts with the item 10 times, it counts as 10 events.
From the options on the top right side of the window, click Actions.
The Actions view sorts the chart per tracked item, for example a link or button. The Actions view table has the following headers:
One Click = One Event. For example, if the same user interacts with the item 10 times, it is counted as 10 events.
This section gives information on how to export events statistics.
Click Export from the page functions menu on the top right side of the page.
A dialog opens. Select the export name from the list.
From the options on the top right side of the window, click Names.
The table has the following headers:
One Click = One Event. For example, if the same user interacts with the item 10 times, it counts as 10 events.
The onclick event executes a certain functionality when, for example, the user clicks on any button.
This event lets website owners monitor and track the number of clicks on each button or link, and use this data to improve the browsing experience for website visitors.
Make sure that the script is already deployed on Tag Manager, so that the statistics are ready to collect data.
For more information, see the user guide chapter:
Click Tags, from the menu on the left.
Add the event onclick script.
1<a class="b-btn-t" href="#">Click me</a> 2<script type="text/javascript"> 3function trackEvent() { 4 return window.monsido_functions.trackEvent('Category', 'Action', 'Event', 1); 5} 6document.querySelector('a.b-btn-t').addEventListener("click", trackEvent); 7</script>
Make sure to adjust the script, since it is set to trigger on a specific button.
The trigger configuration might need to be adjusted.
For more information, see the Google document:
About triggers - Tag Manager Help.
For more information, see the following user guide articles:
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