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Google Analytics Mobile Tracking With Rails

by jpreardon on January 17, 2010

Update 2010-05-12: At some point in the last couple weeks, the option for creating a mobile GATC seems to have disappeared. Mobile tracking, as described below, seems to be working. But, I have heard of others having problems. There doesn’t (…)

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Asynchronous Google Analytics Tracking Code

by jpreardon on January 6, 2010

Google Analytics has released an asynchronous version of their tracking code. Listed among the benefits of using the asynchronous tracking code are shorter page load times and more accurate visitor tracking–both good reasons to consider using the asynchronous code. Implementing (…)

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Automatically Tracking External Links in Google Analytics

by jpreardon on September 30, 2009

Google Analytics does not track links to external sites, nor does it track non-pageview events such as file downloads. For most sites, these are pretty valuable metrics that should be tracked. Many people deal with this by manually adding onclick (…)

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