Comments on: Is your Google Analytics missing page views? Introducing Asynchronous Tracking

By: Franz

Franz — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:29:01 +0000

Can anybody help me? I want to add custom variables that I extract from the site’s source code. That means I cannot call _setCustomVar() before calling _trackPageview() with the asynchronous method, as the site HTML isn’t loaded at that point yet.

Am I doomed or how can I solve this?

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:05:20 +0000

@Nick: Have you found PHP libraries that will log data into GA?
@pavlicko: IIS7 runs php

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Diving deep into user behavior with Google Analytics, Event Tracking, and jQuery — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:21:01 +0000

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By: pavlicko

pavlicko — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:01:20 +0000

I just installed the new asynchronous code on one of my clients sites, and I really like the way you can add multiple tracking objects through the command array. I’ll have to run some speed tests later this week, but so far so good.

and by the way, Nick – Brian’s right. Using php isn’t really a viable solution for the millions of sites running a MS server, either. Besides, I’ve tried surfing the net w js disabled and sure its faster, but the whole web experience starts to suck pretty bad.

By: Brian Cray

Brian Cray — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:16:00 +0000

Nick: People often check Google Analytics against their logs on occasion, but given that I’d say 99% (throwing out a number there) of people browse with javascript turned on, I think Google Analytics provides an adequate sample.

By: Nick Yeoman

Nick Yeoman — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:02:40 +0000

I like to block javascript on my browser. It’s probably best to use a php based solution for analytics.