Adobe Analytics: Don't use clearVars() to clear variables!
This article was posted originally at Adobe Experience League Communities. (Disclaimer: The following recommendation is based on my personal experience. It is not endorsed nor recommended by Adobe or any of its partners.) Background: sending more than one beacon in the same page When it comes to accurate analytics tracking, one of the most important things to guard against is that you don't track variables that shouldn't actually be tracked. This happens particularly often when multiple beacons are sent from the same web page. A simple example is what happens when you want to track a link click on a page. When the page's Pageview beacon ( s.t() ) is sent, you might have tracked eVar8 with the page's site section. This eVar8 remains set in the Analytics "s" object. So when you track the click on the link with a Custom Link beacon ( s.tl() ), that eVar8 would be tracked as well – even if that wasn't your intention . This problem manifests itself ev