Is it possible to track hash links like pages with google analytics? Is it possible to track hash links like pages with google analytics? javascript javascript

Is it possible to track hash links like pages with google analytics?


Generically, your code could look like this

_gaq.push(['_trackPageview',location.pathname + location.search  + location.hash]);

You could either bind that code to every time you have a hash change within your application, or you could use a generic hashchange plugin, that uses the HTML5 onhashchange, and some backwards compatible hacks for older browsers, and bind this code to that event, so that it fires every time your hash changes.

Using that plugin, your code could look like:

$(window).hashchange( function(){    _gaq.push(['_trackPageview',location.pathname + location.search  + location.hash]);})


UPDATE 2014:

This is how you'd do this in the new Universal Analytics:

ga('send', 'pageview', { 'page': location.pathname + location.search  + location.hash});

This is how you'd do it if you're using Google Analytics within Google Tag Manager:

  • Go to your macros
  • Updated the URL Macro to "Fragment"


Google Analytics allows you to track custom events, for example AJAX page loads.

(The usual caveats apply when doing this - hopefully there are non-javascript ways to access the same data :)