How to Make a Clickable Phone Number With HTML

Big shout out to Gaintap.com for helping us with this issue. For anyone who needs… see below. OG Link

The below instructions are to help folks using their Google/Android phone to call the number on your website or landing page!

1. Start with a standard link tag:

<a href=""></a>

2. Enter your phone number with no dashes in the quotes:

<a href="8182129201"></a>

3. Now the important part, add tel: to the beginning of the number:

<a href="tel:8182129201"></a>

4. Then finish it up with some text for the link

<a href="tel:8182129201">Call us at 8182129201</a>

Here’s what you should see: Call us at (818) 212-9201 Click the link to make sure it works. If the call goes through, you’re done.

Common HTML Phone Number Link Mistakes

Using dashes, which is by far the most common mistake. The number won’t always work on every device
Forgetting to place a colon after “tel”
Forgetting quotes in the HTML

How to Make a Phone Number Clickable in WordPress

More comfortable with the visual tab/WYSIWYG/TinyMCE editor? Here’s how you add phone links in WordPress:

Edit your page or post in WordPress.
Make sure you’re on the Visual tab – not the Text tab.
Highlight the phone number or text you want to make clickable on phones.
Click the “Hyperlink” button.
Enter tel: followed by your phone number with no dashes.
Apply the link.
Update/publish your page or post.

That’s it. You’re done.

Adding Google Analytics Event Tracking to HTML Phone Number Links

Here’s an easy call tracking solution: combine the above steps with Google Analytics to track click events.

Example Click to Call Link with Google Analytics Event Tracking:

<a href="tel:8182129201" onclick="ga('send', 'event', { eventCategory: 'Contact', eventAction: 'Call', eventLabel: 'Mobile Button'});"><p class="call-button">Click to Call</p></a>

Copy and paste that link code.
Swap out the phone number and text.
Check Google Analytics under Behavior -> Events -> Overview or Top Events.

Here’s what those clicks look like in Google Analytics:

If you’re on WordPress, you may run into issues with Google Analytics and event tracking. I recommend using Google Tag Manager for all tags on WordPress. You’ll need to have some HTML skills, but it simplifies everything.