I am trying to automatically test tracking code and I am using the RequestLogger from Testcafé. I succeeded to intercept calls to example.com
and localhost
but not to https://www.google-analytics.com/
. What could be the reason?
Expected
This test should be green
Test code
import { RequestLogger } from 'testcafe';
const logger_ga = RequestLogger('https://www.google-analytics.com/');
fixture `localhost`
.page('http://localhost:8000')
test
.requestHooks(logger_ga)
('logs calls to Google Analytics', async t => {
await t.click("#ga-button");
console.log(logger_ga.requests); // is empty due to timing
await t.expect(logger_ga.contains(record => record.response.statusCode === 200)).ok();
});
Fixture for this test
I am serving the following index.html
page via python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Test page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello world!</p>
<!-- Google Analytics: change UA-XXXXX-Y to be your site's ID. -->
<script>
window.ga = function () { ga.q.push(arguments) }; ga.q = []; ga.l = +new Date;
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXX-Y', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview')
</script>
<script src="https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js" async defer></script>
<a onclick="ga('send', 'event', 'my_event_category', 'my_event_action', 'my_event_label');" href="#" id="ga-button">Google Analytics</a>
</body>
</html>
Observed
The above test is red
However, these tests are green
import { RequestLogger } from 'testcafe';
const logger = RequestLogger('http://example.com');
fixture `example`
.page('http://example.com');
test
.requestHooks(logger)
('logs calls to example.com', async t => {
await t.expect(logger.contains(record => record.response.statusCode === 200)).ok(); // green
});
const logger_localhost = RequestLogger('http://localhost:8000');
fixture `localhost`
.page('http://localhost:8000');
test
.requestHooks(logger_localhost)
('logs calls to localhost', async t => {
await t.expect(logger_localhost.contains(record => record.response.statusCode === 200)).ok(); // green
});
How can I intercept calls to Google Analytics successfully?
As Marion suggested it is probably due to timing. The following code works:
The timing factor @Marion mentioned seems to play a role. Compare the previous with the following snippet and its output. Here, we do not see the calls logged to https://google-analytics.com/collect.