Comments on: SWFAddress and the new Google Analytics (ga.js)

By: Mecanographik

Mecanographik — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:09:46 +0000

Thanks for this post but here is the last release :
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:

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 ]);}};

Just check out the following post:
http://activeden.net/forums/thread/swfaddress-google-analytics/37460

By: Philip Hodges

Philip Hodges — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:49:57 +0000

Thanks Mark.

By: Murdoch

Murdoch — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:01:25 +0000

Thank you very much. As Dmitar has fairly commented, this code still works prefectly in 2010. Cheers.

By: Dmitar

Dmitar — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:23:08 +0000

@ Mark Kemper
Thanks, Mark this worked for me in 2010

By: Fun with Google Analytics in the Flash IDE with AS3 « timshaya

Fun with Google Analytics in the Flash IDE with AS3 « timshaya — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:34:53 +0000

[...] for Google Analytics tracking There’s a way to use SWFaddress 2.0 together with ga.js to track page views in Flash [...]

By: Hurby

Hurby — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:23:50 +0000

Google analytics doesn’t take the “#” to the link it tracks. So when u click “view this page”, it will bring u to the wrong url. Does anybody have a solution.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:15:27 +0000

@ Mark Kemper

Hi Mark,

U want to say that the following code will work?:

try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-xxxxxxxxx”);
pageTracker._initData();
SWFAddress.setTracker(pageTracker._trackPageview);
} catch(err) {}

Do I have to add some code to awfaddress.js or to leave it as it is? would U show me a website with a working example.

P.S. I use SWFaddress 2.3 and SWFobject 2 in my head tag.

By: zedia.net

zedia.net — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:48:49 +0000

@ Zach Foley Because GA for Flash didn't exist at the time I wrote this, events weren't even out yet. Now it's a whole new ball game.

By: Zach Foley

Zach Foley — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:46:48 +0000

Why not use ga for flash and track events from there?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:14:09 +0000

Hey everyone,

I’m having a heck of a time getting this to work for some reason. I’ve included the code just as described above but my Google Analytics insists the tracking code isn’t installed.

At http://www.bryanbeca.ca, view the source. Can anybody help me? I’ll be eternally grateful.