Tracking mailto, anchors and external links with Google Analytics

With this simple snippet, all clicks on page-internal anchors, external links (http…) and mailto-links are tracked as events in Google Analytics:

$(function(){
    $("a[href*='http']").each(function() {
                    $(this).click(function (ev) {
                        var pageView = '/outgoing/' + $(this).attr('href');
                        _gat._getTrackerByName()._trackEvent('Outbound Links', pageView);
                        var _href = $(this).attr('href');
                        setTimeout(function() {
                            location.href = _href;
                        }, 100);
                        ev.preventDefault();
                        return false;
                    });
        });
      $("a[href*='mailto']").each(function() {
                    $(this).click(function (ev) {
                        var pageView = '/mailto/' + $(this).attr('href').substring(7);
                        _gat._getTrackerByName()._trackEvent('Mailto', pageView);
                    });
        });
      $("a[href*='#']").each(function() {
                    $(this).click(function (ev) {
                        var pageView = '/anchor/' + $(this).attr('href').substring(1);
                        _gat._getTrackerByName()._trackEvent('Anchors', pageView);
                    });
        });
});

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