How to track click on phone number on mobile device in GA as a goal?
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Hi,
I work with a lot of physicians and one of the things I'd like to do is add a goal in GA so we can try to track how many visitors are clicking the phone # to call the office from smartphones.
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Would doing this be as straight-forward as adding a the standard javascript click text that I'd add for an external link?
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And Is there a way to make a goal only "count" if the user-agent is a smartphone? Because if I attach the JS to the phone #, it's going to be in all of the HTML regardless of which device is used. Unless of course, I mess with the CSS to only make the javascript code appear on certain stylesheets.
Thank you!
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Hopefully too not many people will click that link on the desktop version... But there's always some silly user who is the exception.
Good Luck!
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Yeah you know that's a good question. This is a responsive site I'm gathering (good on ya!) so I see the dilemma.
But yes I believe in the Advanced Segment you can parse events triggered via mobile devices.
Also you should be able to build a custom report which should allow you to filter by OS which would even allow you to break down the data by iOS, Android, Windows Phone, etc.
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Thanks you that's perfect.
And then I guess I'd just filter out smartphone-only for accurate data?
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Well I have the phone number on the responsive site (for example) as HTML text like this
123-456-7890
Can I track this as an event as you suggest?
I see this code below from the link, but it looks like I need to have the phone # as a link....
Other than the ability to add GA code, is this:
123-456-7890
the same as this ### 1-847-555-5555
Thank you !
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Agree with Jesse, using GA Event Tracking will help you track clicks on the mobile button. Within GA, you can slice and dice the information a few ways to see mobile users exclusively.
One option is to use the "Advanced Segments" feature to view "Mobile Traffic" and then drill down via the Content > Events > Top Events report.
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Well I'm assuming you have a "Click to Call" button setup meaning you have a separate mobile site?
If so, I would simply add a Google analytics event to said button on your mobile site and label it something like "mobile-call" or whatever. Are you familiar with Event Tracking? If not, go here - https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/eventTrackerGuide
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