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

Question

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

For example, I want index.php/#1, index.php/#2, and index.php/#3 to all show up as individual page hits with individual time spent on page.

If there is no simple way of doing this, how can I add a track event to an onclick event with jquery? Can I still receive accurate time on "page" information this way?

Answer 1

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]);  }) 

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**UPDATE 2014:**

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

ga('set', 'page', location.pathname + location.search  + location.hash); ga('send', 'pageview'); 

Note from Google Analytics documentation:

While technically the send command for pageview hits accepts an optional page field as the third parameter, passing the page field that way is not recommended when measuring single page applications.

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"

Answer 2

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 :)

Answer 3

Looks like this might be useful too: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/single-page-applications

Very helpful with clear 'What to do' and 'What not to do'