Title: Adding goal conversion tracking for comments
Last modified: August 18, 2016
---
# Adding goal conversion tracking for comments
* [tamar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tamar/)
* (@tamar)
* [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-goal-conversion-tracking-for-comments/)
* I want to be able to track comments but I can’t figure out what file to edit
with the Google Analytics Javascript snippet. I thought it was wp-comments-post.
php but it doesn’t seem to be working. Where would this snippet go and how can
I use it to track the number of comments?
* Thanks.
Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total)
* [binarymoon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarymoon/)
* (@binarymoon)
* [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-goal-conversion-tracking-for-comments/#post-578220)
* I’m not sure how I would do this. Since Google Analytics uses javascript and
wordpress is in php it would probably be easier to write it as a plugin.
* I would have thought it would be best to intercept the form submit process with
javascript, run the Google Analytics query, and then submit the form.
* I’m not good enough with javascript to tell you how to do this though. Sorry.
* Thread Starter [tamar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tamar/)
* (@tamar)
* [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-goal-conversion-tracking-for-comments/#post-578243)
* Anyone have an idea without requiring an addon plugin?
* Thread Starter [tamar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tamar/)
* (@tamar)
* [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-goal-conversion-tracking-for-comments/#post-578290)
* Someone? Anyone?
* Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
* (@otto42)
* WordPress.org Admin
* [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-goal-conversion-tracking-for-comments/#post-578291)
* I had to look up the Goal Tracking on Google Analytics to understand what it
does and how it works.
* Comments are made to wp-comments-form.php, and then it sends a redirect to the
browser which sends them back to the post’s page. If you need some kind of intermediate
page, you could do that with a plugin, but you’d be relying on a meta redirect
or something.
* In short, without a plugin, there’s probably no way to do it. The comment posting
process has no defined intermediate page.
* Thread Starter [tamar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tamar/)
* (@tamar)
* [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-goal-conversion-tracking-for-comments/#post-578299)
* Otto42: thanks for getting back to me. Is there no way to embed a Javascript
snippet into the PHP script? That’s basically what I’m aiming for, but I don’t
know how to do so effectively and I’m not very familiar with either programming
language.
* Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
* (@otto42)
* WordPress.org Admin
* [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-goal-conversion-tracking-for-comments/#post-578305)
* The problem is the way the goal tracking works. It works based on the URL of
the page containing the javascript. Basically, once the user gets to some URL,
he’s met the goal.
* But WordPress doesn’t have any particular final destination URL for making a
comment. You submit the comment, it saves, and you are redirected back to the
page itself. There’s no single URL to define as the goal.
* As for where to put the Google Analytics javascript, you put it in header.php
of your theme. It tracks on every single page you have, there’s no “goal specific”
javascript.
* Thread Starter [tamar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tamar/)
* (@tamar)
* [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-goal-conversion-tracking-for-comments/#post-578306)
* Right. I have regular analytics there, but not so much for tracking the number
of comments. It would be nice if there was a way to do this, but I guess I’m
hoping for too much! Ah well, thanks for clarifying. 🙂
* [Gavin White](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heaventwig/)
* (@heaventwig)
* [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-goal-conversion-tracking-for-comments/#post-578400)
* > Google Analytic’s [urchinTracker](https://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55597)
> allows you to track events on your site that do not generate a pageview.
* This looks like it should provide a means to accomplish this functionality, which
I’d also like to see. I don’t, however, have the necessary familiarity with the
wordpress codebase to implement it.
* Perhaps someone else can give it a try?
* Thanks!
* Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
* (@otto42)
* WordPress.org Admin
* [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-goal-conversion-tracking-for-comments/#post-578401)
* In your theme’s comments.php file, you should find something like this:
* `