Maybe I'm going about this wrong, but I'm hoping I can get some insight. I develop for multiple clients nationwide. I track many of my sites using my personal/development Analytics account that tracks all the domains/profiles I work on. However, I now have marketing folks jumping into the fray, all wanting their own GA trackers installed (and some other 3rd party trackers but that's irrelevant... I think?) that are associated to their own accounts.
So, I've seen some discussion regarding entering multiple trackers into the code (and the possibility of corrupt cookies and data). Simply, is there a better way I could be going about this? I'd prefer to keep them out of my account, this way if any relationships go sour historical data can be preserved.
Am I missing something?
Thanks!
It's possible to have multiple trackers on one site, for example like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var trackerA = _gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXXXX-X");
trackerA._initData();
trackerA._trackPageview();
var trackerB = _gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXXXX-X");
trackerB._initData();
trackerB._trackPageview();
</script>
Another option is to link multiple Google accounts to a single Google Analytics account (using the User Manager -link in the GA account overview).
Now made easy with the new asynchronous tracking code. :)
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncUsageGuide.html#MultipleTrackers
From the asynchronous api documentation
Pushing commands to multiple trackers also works.
_gaq.push( ['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-1'],
['_trackPageview'],
['b._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-2'],
['b._trackPageview']);
This also works for calling multiple _trackPageview after the page is loaded (for additional recorded actions, for example, tracking when somebody downloads a PDF)
<script type="text/javascript">
var ua_codes = ['UA-XXXXX-1', 'UA-XXXXX-2', 'UA-XXXXX-3']
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
for(i in ua_codes) {
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', ua_codes[i]]);
_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);
})();
</script>
<a href="/some_document.pdf" onClick="record_click(this.href);">Read the pdf</a>
<script type="text/javascript">
function record_click(track_url) {
for(i in ua_codes) {
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', ua_codes[i]]);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', track_url]);
}
}
</script>
I think its common thing. Samething happens in the company I work for. We have GA and loads of other tags from marketing guys. We just have to live with it.
Analytics is best used by Marketing guys.
