Event

Track custom events in Optimizely. The event eventName will be tracked and associated with the current visitor.

Description

The event method captures visitor behavior and additional data. You can track clicks and pageviews in Optimizely without code, but this API call supports tracking other behaviors like watching a video. These events can be used for measuring the results of an experiment or for identifying an audience based on behavior.

window.optimizelyEdge.push(event);

window.optimizelyEdge.push({
  "type": "event",
  "eventName": "watchedVideo",
  "tags": {
    "title": "Funny Cats",
    "duration": 30,
    "revenue": 5000
  }
});

Parameters

This table provides general information about the required and optional parameters.

Parameter	Type	Description
event required	object	This is an event object.
event.type required	string	A static value that indicates that you're using the `event` function.
event.eventName required	string	The API name for an event created in Optimizely, e.g. `add_to_cart`.
event.tags optional	object	A flat object containing metadata about an event (e.g., a product SKU). Some keys are reserved; see below for the list of such keys.
event.tags.revenue optional	integer	Used to submit values for the revenue metric. Values of this tag should be integers equal to 100 times the unit value of the relevant currency (e.g., dollar, euro). For example, if a conversion results in $75.02 of revenue, then this tag should be included with value `7502`.
event.tags.value optional	number	Used to submit values for numeric metrics that aren't revenue. If it's a number, it's included among both `eventMetrics` and `eventFeatures` in raw data export. If the value is not a number, this tag is still included among the `eventFeatures` present in raw data export, but is not among `eventMetrics` and is not used used in computing metric statistics.
event.tags.* optional	string or integer	Used to specify additional properties of your choice.