GoogleAnalyticsProxy

h1. What's GoogleAnalyticsProxy?

This class allows you to test event tracking in a development environment without throwing JavaScript errors because google analytics isn't loaded. When Google Analytics is loaded, it'll trigger the corresponding pageTracker functions as you'd expect in a production environment.

h2. Example Usage

Just execute this after google analytics is loaded.

<pre><code> _gap = new GoogleAnalyticsProxy(); _gap._trackPageview(); _gap._trackPageview('/contact/thanks'); _gap._trackEvent('Video', 'Play', 'Homepage video'); _gap._trackEvent('Video', 'Pause', 'Homepage video'); _gap._trackEvent('Button', 'Click', 'Call to action X'); </code></pre>

h3. Initializing GoogleAnalyticsProxy

The following example is for Ruby on Rails to demonstrate how I load google analytics only in production, but GoogleAnalyticsProxy is loaded all the time.

<pre><code> <% if RAILS_ENV == 'production' -%> <!--// Google Analytics //--> <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 = _gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXXX-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); </script>

<% end -%>

<script type="text/javascript"> var _gap = new GoogleAnalyticsProxy(); </script>

</code></pre>

h2. Distribution

All the files related to GoogleAnalyticsProxy can be found in the @src@ folder.

h2. More information

You can learn morea bout the Google Analytics API here:

• "http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApi.html":http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApi.html