Analytics _trackEvent in jQuery AJAX on success before redirect

Question

I am trying to track event on success of $.ajax function and then redirect the page. Unfrotunatly the tracking wont appear on analytics and I belive this is because my redirect wont let the tracking finish it's job. I heard I can detect when data is passed to google analytics but could not figure it out.

$.ajax({
                type : "POST",
                url : formActionAttr,
                data : datastring,
                success : function() {                                                                                          

                    //analytics tracking                                        
                    _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Category 1', 'Success', formActionAttr]);                                                    

                    window.location.href = pdfurl;                                                                      

                }

                });

appreciate any help!

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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Use Google Analytic's hitCallback function:

success: function(){
    _gaq.push(['_set','hitCallback',function(){

        window.location.href = pdfurl;

    }]);

    _gaq.push(['_trackEvent','Category 1','Success',formActionAttr]);

}

edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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answered Nov 25 '13 at 18:29

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Thank you, let me try it out tomorrow as I am away right now from my place. I will certainly accept your answer. Thank you. – devjs11 Nov 25 '13 at 20:39
unfortunately that seems not to work. There are no errors in console but it wont make redirect. – devjs11 Nov 26 '13 at 09:02
I belive this is because I use new analytics code with ga.js, is there any difference? – devjs11 Nov 26 '13 at 09:13
You have an error in '_hitCallback' it should be 'hitCallback' – devjs11 Nov 26 '13 at 10:13
Documentation :) https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/field-reference#hitCallback – Neal Ehardt Jan 18 '16 at 18:12

Analytics _trackEvent in jQuery AJAX on success before redirect

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