How to send an event to google analytics via js?

Question

JavaScript

The point is this. I want to send statistics from submitting a form.
on js wrote sending on the submit event.

$(".lets_work_form").submit(function() {
    ga('send', 'event', {
    eventCategory: 'form',
    eventAction: 'submit'
  });
   });

".lets_work_form" is the class of the form itself.
There is no error in the console. But for some reason the data is not sent to Google Analytics! how to solve this?

Answer 1

Show the site, your submit code is more like using the new gtag.
Change from gtag:

Было:
ga('send', 'event', 'form', 'submit');

Стало:
gtag('event', 'submitForm', { 'event_category': 'form', 'event_action': 'submit', });

submitForm - can be arbitrary.

Answer 2

At you the data does not have time to otrpavitsya. You need to wait for the data to be sent to Google, and then submit the form. More details here