Tracking TOC-Clicks

Hi,

Still a great fan of this plugin. After having it in use for some while, I now was interested in seeing how often this navigation is actually clicked by visitors and to see what sections they jump to.

This is not a feature request, the code to do it is below for anybody interested. But maybe you want to include an option to toggle this in future versions? I don’t know – might be of use to some, hence I posted it here.

Requries a Google (Universal) Analytics account running on the page.

The only change is in toc.php, in line 1340 (i.e just above if ( $this->options['ordered_list'] ) {

There you simply enter the following two lines, replacing line 1340: ` $intlink=$this->url_anchor_target( $matches[$i][0] );
$html .= ‘<a href=”#’ . $intlink . ‘” onClick=”ga(\’send\’, \’event\’, \’TOCPlus\’, \’Click\’, \”. $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’].’#’.$intlink.’\’);”>’;`

(If you do not create the $intlink (internal link) variable, an ugly-looking 2 will be appended in the link or the event.)

This small change fires a code that will turn up in google (universal) analytics in events as as Category:TOCPlus > Action: Click > Label:URL#Anchor without domain name.

Hope somebody might find this useful.

Regards,
NZ

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