ethoseo

Nick Quinlan

Track Everything makes event tracking simple. By default the plugin tracks form submissions, external links and emails. However, you can customize it to track nearly any common event using CSS selectors.
The plugin allows users to label events or completely customize events’ <code>Category</code>, <code>Action</code> , and <code>Label</code> <a href="https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/eventTrackerGuide#Anatomy" rel="nofollow ugc">as allowed by Analytics</a>.
By using Google Analytics Event Tracking you can get a more detailed view of what users do on your site and track beyond what Google Analytics offers by default.
WordPress Track Everything acts as a simple interface for <a href="https://github.com/nquinlan/jquery-track-everything" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery Track Everything</a>, allowing anyone to easily track events on their WordPress website.

Track Everything

Track Everything makes using Google Analytics on a WordPress site easy. Attach tracking to forms, links, or any CSS selector.

Sidmetal98

Ink my web

Alexander Gounder

Are you using UTM Source to track link clicks within your website?
That’s a really bad idea! Not only will it create a new session with the links utm_source and inflate your visitor stats, it will also increase the bounce rate on the page you’re tracking.
So what’s the solution?
Use [event tracking] (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/events) on Google Analytics which capture events like a link click into your Google Analytics Dashboard.
For e.g. 
 <a href="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/free-ebook.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc">Download Free Ebook</a>
But then the WordPress Visual Editor will keep cleaning out the onClick part, so we made a quick shortcode that would save you from the trouble of redoing the onClick part everytime it got cleaned out.
How does it work?
In place of an A href tag like <code><a onClick="ga('send', 'event', 'Downloads', 'Click', 'Ebook downloaded', '0');" href="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/free-ebook.pdf">Download Free Ebook</a></code> use our shortcode <code>[tac_ga url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/free-ebook.pdf" category="Downloads" action="Click" label="Ebook Downloaded"]Download Free Ebook[/tac_ga]</code>
By default this shortcode uses the following information: 
Category: link 
Action: click 
Label: The URL Entered
How do I check if this works
Google Analytics’ Real time tab will show you that these tags would or not.
Some cases in which this shortcode won’t work: 
* You use Google Tag Manager to insert Google Analytics 
* You use Monster Insights Plugin (Formerly Yoast’s Google Analytics Plugin) to install Google Analytics

Track a click on Google Analytics

A simple shortcode to insert Google Analytics event tracking code on your links

Track Everything vs Track a click on Google Analytics