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Answer 1

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noob error with the code-block! here's the full version.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
    <script type="text/javascript">
      var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
      document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
    </script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      var pageTracker;
      try {
        pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-xxxxxxx-1");
        pageTracker._trackPageview();        
      } catch(err) { 
        console.log(err.toString()); 
      }
      $(document).ready(function() {
          try {
            pageTracker._trackEvent('my_category', 'my_action', 'my_optional_label', 42); 
          } catch(err) { 
            console.log('trackEvent ' + err.toString()); 
          }
      });
      </script> 
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>

Vivek 2009-11-14 17:16:05

Answer 2

A:

Turns out one needs to call _initData() before the call to _trackEvent. Not sure why this is the case, but it seems to work now. Hopefully it helps someone else. The modified sample..

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
    <script type="text/javascript">
      var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
      document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
    </script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      var pageTracker;
      try {
        pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-xxxxx-1");
        pageTracker._trackPageview();        
      } catch(err) { 
        alert(err.toString()); 
      }
      $(document).ready(function() {
          try {
            pageTracker._initData(); // <<--- The addition. 
            pageTracker._trackEvent('my_category', 'my_action', 'my_optional_label', 42); 
          } catch(err) { 
            alert('trackEvent ' + err.toString()); 
          }
      });
      </script> 
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>

Vivek 2009-11-14 19:33:10

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