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By: Levi

Levi — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:21:36 +0000

Al, yes that helps, thanks for your response.

By: Al Stevens

Al Stevens — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:56:50 +0000

@bobdobbs I’m hoping to upgrade this tutorial soon! I hope you managed to solve it though.

By: Al Stevens

Al Stevens — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:55:48 +0000

@Levi – thanks for your input. I don’t see any fundamental problem with the script you have used and I think the answer to your question lies in whether you will be calling multiple functions on page load. You see if you have other functions to call on page load (like for example a script which loads another web service) then using a reusable function like addLoadEvent makes sense. If however you only require a single use then maybe your code will suffice.

Alternatively if you’re using a script library like jQuery then you could simply use the library’s own function, in jQuery’s case – $(document).ready(function() {
// put all your jQuery goodness in here.
});

I hope that helps.

By: Levi

Levi — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:55:45 +0000

I meant to say, this is the code I got out of a book.
The other code is from this tutorial.

if(typeof window.addEventListener != “undefined”)
{
window.addEventListener(”load”, doThisAfterTheHTMLHasLoaded, false);
}
else if(typeof window.attachEvent != “undefined”)
{
window.attachEvent(”onload”, doThisAfterTheHTMLHasLoaded);
}

By: Levi

Levi — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:50:30 +0000

I tried the code I wrote above and it works in chrome, not sure what version, firefox, not sure what version, and ie6. I still need to test it in ie7, ie8, and safari. My original question should have been: I’m new to javascript, how does the code I posted compare to your code? I usually use the simplest code that will work in the most used browsers. The code I posted I got out of a book. To me it seems simpler and easier to understand. What do you think?

By: Levi

Levi — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:52:20 +0000

I forgot to say thankyou for this tutorial. Thankyou. I like it

By: Levi

Levi — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:47:54 +0000

I was wondering if this would work:

function loadGAScript()
{
if (!document.getElementsByTagName) return false;
var gaJsHost = ((”https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”);
var gaScript = document.createElement(”script”);
gaScript.setAttribute(”type”, “text/javascript”);
gaScript.setAttribute(”src”, gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js”);
var domHead = document.getElementsByTagName(”head”)[0];
domHead.appendChild(gaScript);
}
loadGAScript();

function callGA()
{
try
{
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(”UA-xxxxxxxx-x”);
pageTracker._trackPageview();
}
catch(err) {}
}

function doThisAfterTheHTMLHasLoaded()
{
callGA();
}

By: K. M.

K. M. — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:29:46 +0000

This is G-R-E-A-T great! I just could not hack the script right to make it work in an external .js file, and asking around on Google forums was not helpful.

By: bobdobbs

bobdobbs — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:24:59 +0000

Hey Aaron.
Thanks for the tecnique.

However, when I put it into place, firebugs console gives me errors.
I suspect that your snippet might not work with the latest version of analytics.