I have been using Google Analytics for years and access the software nearly everyday as part of daily job. The Google Analytics package has undertaken many development changes in that time including moving from the urchin tracker to the new asynchronous tracking code that they have recently migrated.
I consider myself to be quite advanced in Google Analytics so therefore decided to take the Google Analytics test, where you have to get over 80% to pass. I went through all the tutorials on the Google Analytics Conversion University to familiarize myself …

The Google Analytics system allows users to view traffic data when a user physically views a particular page on their website. One problem users can have with Google Analytics is that they are unable to track other actions such as flash animations, downloading on PDFs, or the playing of a particular video.
To achieve this you have a choice of two different features in Google Analytics they are:

Virtual Pageviews
Event Tracking

Below I have detailed the different methods of capturing this data within Google Analytics
1. Virtual page views
The first method of tracking such …