SWFAddress + Google Analytics

Ive had a few problems with it in the past few hours, so I thought Id share my findings so you wont have to search for it.

With the new GA and SWFAddress 2.4, the GA tracking through SWFAddress doesnt work anymore. Thats because the ‘pageTracker’ that SWFAddress uses no longer exists. All you would have to do to make it work is to add the following line at the end of the GA script:

var pageTracker = {    _trackPageview: function (url) {_gaq.push (['_trackPageview', url ]);}}; 

This creates that ‘pageTracker’ that SWFAddress needs to track through GA. So now it looks like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
          var _gaq = _gaq || [];
          _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'xx-xxxxxxxx-x']);
          _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
          (function() {
            var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript';
        ga.async = true;
            ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' :
        'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
            var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
        s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
          })();

        // Tracker for SWFAddress
        var pageTracker = {    _trackPageview: function (url) {_gaq.push (['_trackPageview', url ]);}}; 
</script>

And thats it! Hope that helps someone some day

i didn’t know that ,thanks Dutch man

Thank you Emroni. Appreciate it!

Hi thank you for the fix, I would like to blog it do you have anything against that ?

Youre all very welcome

Nothing against that Kuba, go ahead

thanks for the info !

Thanks Emroni. Good to know.

Same here!

Thanks

Look like a good hack, however I would be hesitant to mess with GA code per Google’s terms of use policies. I would love to know your thoughts on this subject.

^ Well, its not really messing with their code. All you do is add a line so you can use their code, your not changing anything. What this line does is make sure that SWFAddress can use the GA code, nothing wrong with that.