Comments on: Google Analytics jQuery Plugin

By: Steffen

Steffen — Sat, 29 May 2010 18:33:34 +0000

Hi Shamasis,
the reason I think it won’t work is because of

1.) _anonymizeIp() is a method of _gat, not of the pageTracker which would get automatically mapped to $.ga through bind()

$.ga._anonymizeIp()
–> undefined

$.ga.anonymizeIp()
–> undefined

_gat._anonymizeIp()
–> function (){i.Va=r}

2.) You can’t use the callback argument of ga.load() because as already mentioned _anonymizeIp() is not a method of pageTracker

$.ga.load(‘UA-XXXXXX-XX’, function(pageTracker) { pageTracker._anonymizeIp(); });
-> undefined
-> Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method ‘_anonymizeIp’

Any idea?
– Steffen

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Shamasis Bhattacharya — Thu, 27 May 2010 06:16:50 +0000

You will be surprised to know that any change made to ga.js gets AUTOMATICALLY integrated into this plugin. Test with _anonymizeIp(), it must already work!

By: Steffen

Steffen — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:38:43 +0000

If possible, you should already implement the recently integrated

_gat._anonymizeIp();

into the $.ga.load(uid, callback) function because the load() function already performs the Tracking [line 81: t._trackPageview()] and _anonymizeIp() should be invoked before _trackPageview() as far as I understand the updated API.
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApi_gat.html#_gat._anonymizeIp
BTW: _getTracker(account) is deprecated. The ga.js code is invoking _createTracker(opt_account, opt_name) now.

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Shamasis Bhattacharya — Sun, 09 May 2010 09:53:21 +0000

I have fixed all issues. Will post updated JS as soon as I finish testing every aspect.

By: t

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:56:12 +0000

I have a similar problem to the one that JMS was having with the e-commerce tracking. All events are wrapped in $(function() { }); but because the script takes its time to load it the bind() function in your script hasn’t been fired and it throws an error and tells me the $.ga.XXX functions I am trying to call are undefined.
Have you got any solutions?

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Shamasis Bhattacharya — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:34:52 +0000

If you have Google Analytics included in your web-page, this is an alternative method to do the same. Everything else remains unchanged.

However, it adds some features to existing GA like: lesser page-load time, neater API, jQuery syntax, etc.

You need to include jquery.js and jquery.ga.js in your page and follow the instructions on this page.

By: gee

gee — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:12:32 +0000

how is this plugin supposed to work? what is the output? is there a sample page somewhere? I dont see anything displayed after using the code mentioned above. can i view the analytics data with this plugin?

By: Montana Flynn

Montana Flynn — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:54:51 +0000

I am in the process of making a jQuery plugin for the new async analytics code. I have been using it and very impressed with its results in event tracking. The standard code often fails to register an action before the page reloads. A nice fix is to tack on a 1s timeout to the link.

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Shamasis Bhattacharya — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:31:10 +0000

All GA functions starting with underscore, is available for use.

By: AJ Mercer

AJ Mercer — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:42:05 +0000

is _setCustomVar() supported?
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApiBasicConfiguration.html#_gat.GA_Tracker_._setCustomVar