: What types of clicks affect ''pages per session'' in GA? How can ensure click get registered to increase that? I have on my website a lot JS, e.g.: <a href="#" class="slideshow-button clicked">Slideshow</a>

@Reiling115

If you want to track users doing actions on your site, without a pageload, Google Analytics provides events. You can send arbitrary events to Google Analytics and it will track them.
I once had a site that users would open and stay on one page for extended periods of time, and had an event polling every 2 minutes checking in that the user still had the page open.

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@BetL925

Google Analytics counts page views whenever a page with the tracking snippet are loaded. Clicking links on those pages that trigger JavaScript but do not load another page would not increase the Google Analytics page view count.

You are correct that using full URLs (without a # in them) could help. When your hrefs are full URLs to other pages with the tracking snippet, GA would see additional page views and increase the "pages per session" metric.

Alternatively, you could have your JavaScript send extra page views programatically. Google has a guide for single page applications that shows how to send virtual page views with code like:

ga('set', 'page', '/slideshow');
ga('send', 'pageview');

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