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Dave Lalande
Dave Lalande

Reputation: 194

Event Timestamp Google Analytics

I've got some events setup to report to Google Analytics, phone calls. It works fine and reports what I have setup thus far.

<a onclick="window._gaq &amp;&amp; _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'MobileLinks', 'Phone', 'Our Facility Location']);" href="tel:5555555555">

I'd like to additionally like to report in GA the actual time (users local time) that someone called using the link so I could tie this together with our phone system and scheduler to gauge appointment conversions.

Any ideas how to do this?

Thanks... Dave

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6791

Answers (1)

Max Ostapenko
Max Ostapenko

Reputation: 546

I recommend you migrating to Google Analytics Universal first (needs modifying your JS code). Then you'll get access to custom dimensions, where you can store your custom parameters.

For user's local time you should create new hit scope custom dimension and pass the value from your website:

<a onclick="window.ga &amp;&amp; ga('send', 'event', 'MobileLinks', 'Phone', 'Our Facility Location', {'dimension1': new Date().getTimezoneOffset()/60});" href="tel:5555555555">

You'll get a visitor's timezone.

Adding it to ga:dateHour + ga:minute of the hit you will know his local time.

Upvotes: 2

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