I am running a WordPress site, which is verified with Google Webmaster Tools and has a GA code associated with Google Analytics.
I’ve done some research on the web to add an Event tracker for clickable phone numbers in mobile, so that I can measure how many people actually use the phone number on the homepage of the website we developed for a client: posanarestaurant.com.
Most of the blogs that offered up how to do this simply gave me this code to add to my site below:
<a href="tel:18285053969" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','Phone Call Tracking','Click/Touch','Home Banner']);">828.505.3969</a>
They said that Google would start to pick up tracking in 24 to 48-hours, but I haven’t seen anything in GA yet.
I know that there is some javascript that might go in the head of the site, but one of the plugins I’m using already adds that javascript, so I don’t want to duplicate having two exact same javascript references in the head of the site.
What am I doing wrong?
The syntax for UA event tracking is
So your complete code would be
Once you have that set, and if you are not filtering out your own views, you can check for the event hit in Real-Time reports (so you don’t have to wait 24 hours to see if it’s working).