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GA send event, returns undefined

Innit GA

var _gaq = _gaq || [];
    _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxxxx-6']);
    _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

    (function () {
        var ga = document.createElement('script');
        ga.type = 'text/javascript';
        ga.async = true;
        ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
        var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
        s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
    })();

Track event

ga('send', {
              'hitType': 'event',
              'eventCategory': 'Customer',
              'eventAction': 'Registration',
              'eventLabel': 'Popup',
              'eventValue': 0.99
            });

But this allways return undefined, And I added the ‘Registration’ event (with that category, label and value) in conversions, at google analytics site,

Any idea why this could happen?

Of course it isn’t tracked..

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Answer

You are mixing old-style classic syntax (using the _gaq array) and Universal Analytics, so your ga object is not set up correctly (the tracker id from _gaq will not be used in the ga object and hence no tracker is created).

Your code should look something like this:

  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
  })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

  ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1', 'auto');
  ga('send', 'pageview');
ga('send', {
              'hitType': 'event',
              'eventCategory': 'Customer',
              'eventAction': 'Registration',
              'eventLabel': 'Popup',
              'eventValue': 1
            });
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