# YBlog - Track Events with Google Analytics
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# Track Events with Google Analytics

## Asynchronous Complete Google Analytics with jQuery

Here is how to track all clicks on your website using google analytics asynchronously.

First in your <sc>html</sc> you need to use jQuery and a javscript file I named `yga.js`:

        <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="yga.js"></script>

And here is the `yga.js` file:

    $(document).ready( function() {
        // add an event to all link for google analytics
        $('a').click(function () {
            // tell analytics to save event
            try {
                var identifier=$(this).attr('id') ;
                var href=$(this).attr('href')
                var label="";
                if ( typeof( identifier ) != 'undefined' ) {
                    label=label+'[id]:'+identifier
                    category='JSLink'
                }
                if ( typeof( href ) != 'undefined' ) {
                    label=label+' [href]:'+href
                    if ( href[0] == '#' ) {
                        category='Anchor';
                    } else {
                        category='Link';
                    }
                }
                _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', category, 'clicked', label]);
                // console.log('[tracked]: ' + category + ' ; clicked ; ' + label );
            }
            catch (err) {
                console.log(err);
            }

            // pause to allow google script to run
            var date = new Date();
            var curDate = null;
            do {
                curDate = new Date();
            } while(curDate-date < 300);
        });
    });

    var _gaq = _gaq || [];
    _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1']);
    _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

    (function() {
     var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
     ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
     })();

Replace the: `UA-XXXXXXXX-1` by your google analytics code and you’re done.

To see what occurs, simply go in `Content` and `Event Tracking` as shown in the following screenshot:

Happy tracking!

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