Basics
Track events
Besides pageviews, Umami is also able to track events that occur on your website. There are two ways to record events in Umami, using the data attributes property or using JavaScript.
Limits
Event names are limited to 50 characters.
Event data cannot be sent without an event name.
Using data attributes
To enable events, simply add a special data property to the element you want to track.
For example, you might have a button with the following code:
Add a data property with the following format:
data-umami-event="{event-name}"
So your button element would now look like this:
When the user clicks on this button, Umami will record an event named Signup button.
You can optionally pass along event_data with the data-umami-event-* annotation.
data-umami-event="Signup button"
data-umami-event-email="bob@aol.com"
data-umami-event-id="123"
The additional properties will result in { email: 'bob@aol.com', id: '123' } being recorded with the Signup button name.
Notes
All event data will be saved as a string using this method. If you want to save event data as numeric, dates, booleans, etc. use the JavaScript method below.
Other event listeners inside the element will not be triggered.
Using JavaScript
You can also record events manually using the window.umami object. To accomplish the same thing as the above data-* method, you can do:
const button = document.getElementById('signup-button');
button.onclick = () => umami.track('Signup button');
In this case, Umami will record an event named Signup button.
If you want to record dynamic data, see Tracker functions.