{"id":205,"date":"2017-01-24T03:06:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T03:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/html5box.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2017-01-24T03:21:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T03:21:14","slug":"tracking-html5-lightbox-with-google-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/html5box.com\/blog\/jquery-lightbox\/tracking-html5-lightbox-with-google-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking HTML5 Lightbox with Google Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Product:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/html5box.com\/html5lightbox\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">HTML5 Lightbox<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is there any way to add Google Analytics code which would track the lightbox link on the page? I would like to see how many times the link to the video is clicked on the page?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You could add the following JavaScript to your webpage. Please make sure to change the tracking id to your own Google Analytics tracking id.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: jscript; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n&lt;script type=&quot;text\/javascript&quot;&gt;\r\n    var html5lightbox_options = {\r\n    \tgoogleanalyticsaccount: &quot;UA-XXXXXXXX-X&quot;\r\n    };\r\n&lt;\/script&gt;\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>To view the tracked events, in Google Analytics dashboard, click left menu Behavior -> Events -> Top Events, click Event Category \"Lightbox\", then Event Action \"Open\", the URL of the lightbox image\/video will be listed as the Event Label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Product: HTML5 Lightbox Question: Is there any way to add Google Analytics code which would track the lightbox link on the page? I would like to see how many times the link to the video is clicked on the page? Answer: You could add the following JavaScript to your webpage. Please make sure to change &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/html5box.com\/blog\/jquery-lightbox\/tracking-html5-lightbox-with-google-analytics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tracking HTML5 Lightbox with Google Analytics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-html5-lightbox","category-html5-video-lightbox","category-jquery-lightbox","category-jquery-video-lightbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/html5box.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/html5box.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/html5box.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/html5box.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/html5box.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/html5box.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/html5box.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/html5box.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/html5box.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/html5box.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}