Comments on: Google Analytics Tracking Code – HTTPS and Full External Referrer Only

By: JK

JK — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:43:01 +0000

Is this still good and useful in 2011?

By: Chris Bae

Chris Bae — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:11:56 +0000

Hi Darryl,
I am very happy to find your blog that I can ask questions.
I tried to insert tracking code in my blog.
Where can I find html page?
I know I can put the tracking code before “body” in html page.
But I cannot find where is the html page.
Could anyone help me as soon as possible.

Thank you very much in advance.

By: Hassan

Hassan — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:22:09 +0000

Hi Darryl,

Since the new GA script (ga.js) is out, how do you think we can get the full referrer?

Many thanks,
Hassan

By: reuben

reuben — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:00:39 +0000

Hi Daryl

You should probably start by replacing the fancy quotes with regular apostrophes.

By: Darryl

Darryl — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:12:44 +0000

Correction: The analytics code pasted into my last post didn’t come out correctly. Please goto interface21.com and view source code. The analytics code is located just before the closing tag.

By: Darryl

Darryl — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:08:49 +0000

Reuben,

I’m getting an error in IE 7 (Firefox seems to be OK) when I add the following analytics code that includes Daniel Strickland’s modified last block. Do you know why this might be causing an error in IE?

Webpage: http://www.interface21.com
Error: Invalid Character
Code: 0

document.write( ” );

_uacct = “UA-2728886-1″;
urchinTracker();

document.write( � );
var wbx = window.location.toString().indexOf(�:�) + 3;
var wb = window.location.toString().substr(wbx,window.location.toString().indexOf(�/�,wbx)-wbx);
if( document.referrer.toString().indexOf(wb) == -1 )
document.write( �urchinTracker(document.referrer);� );
document.write( � );

By: Kale Davis » Google Analytics

Kale Davis » Google Analytics — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:45:29 +0000

[...] is if you use? http internally and SSL (https) externally.? If so, check out Reuben Yau’s post on how to handle both cases with a little extra javascript.? If you want to use it with SharePoint [...]

By: Daniel Strickland

Daniel Strickland — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:50:13 +0000

Thanks for the code! I just added it to my sites and am waiting for new data to see how it works.

In the meantime, I made a small modification to automatically detect the current website to prevent full internal referrers. So now you don’t have to replace “www.mywebsite.com” in your original (final code). My issue was that sometimes visitors use “mywebsite.com” (no “www”) and the original code doesn’t account for that.

Here’s my modification to the last “script” block:

document.write( ” );
var wbx = window.location.toString().indexOf(“:”) + 3;
var wb = window.location.toString().substr(wbx,window.location.toString().indexOf(“/”,wbx)-wbx);
if( document.referrer.toString().indexOf(wb) == -1 )
document.write( ‘urchinTracker(document.referrer);’ );
document.write( ” );
—–
Hi Daniel

Thanks for the update.

Reuben

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 15 May 2007 07:10:34 +0000

Okay, forget the last question. If you omit that, it simply writes out “urchinTracker(document.referrer);” at the end of your document instead of evaluating it.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 15 May 2007 06:54:45 +0000

First, thanks for this. It drives me nuts that GA does not give full referrers.

Just curious, though, why write out the script tag within a script tag? Since you already have a script tag, won’t the conditional execute anyway, or is this just to delay things so that the conditional doesn’t execute until the JS interpreter gets up and going?