It's reported as a warning by the Tag Assistant, but it still bothers me.
And this is my analytics.js
implementation:
<script>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X', 'auto');
var visited_pages = [];
visited_pages.push(document.location.pathname);
//ga('send', 'pageview');
</script>
<script>
function gaTrack(path) {
setTimeout(function() {
visited_pages.push(path);
ga('set', { page: path });
ga('send', 'pageview', path);
}, 1);
}
</script>
It is in the <head></head>
tag, as Tag Assistant wants.
I use the gaTrack
wherever I do a history.pushState
, for instance:
history.pushState(null, null, headnav.data('uri'));
gaTrack(headnav.data('uri'));
And it's all good, nothing is undefined
or invalid, but still the warning gets raised in the Tag Assistant.
So my questions are (which may help someone in the future):
analytics.js
implementation and logic inside gaTrack
function wrong?If you use google tag manager it will also include google analytics.
thus the compatible way to include google analytics is
<script>
window['GoogleAnalyticsObject'] = 'ga';
window['ga'] = window['ga'] || function() {
(window['ga'].q = window['ga'].q || []).push(arguments)
};
ga('require','ecommerce');
//etc
</script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Google Tag Manager -->
<noscript><iframe src="//www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-XXXXXX"
height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript>
<script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':
new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],
j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src=
'//www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);
})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-XXXXXX');</script>
<!-- End Google Tag Manager -->