Does anything you just wrote invalidate the need of GWT applications
for tracking individual dynamic pages via Google Analytics, in a way
that admins don't have to manually correlate real GWT dynamic page
urls (with hashes), with the pseudo page urls (classic urls) in the
Google Analytics user interface?

On Aug 1, 4:50 pm, Ian Bambury <[email protected]> wrote:
> GA tracks pages. Ajax sites have only one page therefore you only get one
> hit.
> Changing the bookmark changes your place on a page, therefore it doesn't
> count as a page-change. Furthermore, the server doesn't get notified of
> bookmark changes (since there is no page request) and therefore doesn't log
> a hit. Even more than that, the server doesn't ever get sent the bookmark,
> so there is no way for it to do *anything* with it even if it *did* get
> notified and could discriminate betweenhttp://example.com/#xxxbeing a GWT
> history token which indicates a hit andhttp://example.com/#yyywhich isn't,
> andhttp://example.com/#zzzwhich is from a GWT app but isn't being used for
> history.
>
> Short of being psychic, there's not a lot GA can do AFAICT
>
> Ian
>
> http://examples.roughian.com
>
> 2009/7/31 Donovan Jimenez <[email protected]>
>
>
>
> > What I'd like to see is analytics support for tracking the "history"
> > token in page tracks we submit.
>
> > Its annoying to use GWT's history support but then find that Google
> > Analytics won't let you track dynamic pages of that form. Transforming
> > the URLs into a form that GA will accept is the workaround, but
> > without adding extra URL parsing on the server side those links are
> > not "clickable" from GA.
>
> > I submitted a request to analytics months ago and got no response.
> > Does anyone else see that as useful?
>
> > On Jul 30, 12:06 pm, Carver <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > To use Google Analytics in GWT, we set up a couple methods like this:
>
> > >         public static native void runGoogleAnalytics() /*-{
> > >         try {
> > >                 $wnd.gaTrack = $wnd._gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXXX-X");
> > >                 $wnd.gaTrack._setDomainName(".slique.com");
> > >                 $wnd.gaTrack._trackPageview();
> > >         } catch(err) {}
> > >         }-*/;
> > >         public static native void runGoogleAnalytics(String pageName)
> > /*-{
> > >         try {
> > >                 $wnd.gaTrack._trackPageview(pageName);
> > >         } catch(err) {}
> > >         }-*/;
>
> > > We call runGoogleAnalytics() in onModuleLoad, and then
> > > runGoogleAnalytics("/gwt/ministry/of/silly/walks") wherever we want to
> > > track a new page.  I hear that GA "Events" are the right way to do
> > > this, but this has gotten us started.
>
> > > Note: the setDomainName call is only necessary for us because we use
> > > the same GA account to track all subdomains on our site.
>
> > > Does that help?
>
> > > ~Carverhttp://slique.com-builds group memory by putting all your group's
> > > email, files and documents in one place
> > > I'm not being curt, I'm just usinghttp://five.sentenc.es/
>
> > > On Jul 30, 11:25 am, makoki <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Yes, right, we're trying to track dynamic pages. Otherwise, as Juraj
> > > > says, we don't have any problem.
> > > > On 29 jul, 17:22, Juraj Vitko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > I have not implemented Analytics in GWT yet, but it seems that unless
> > > > > you want to track dynamic "pages" inside your GWT app, you may just
> > > > > include the urchin.js script plus the trigger scriptlet (possibly
> > > > > wrapped in try { } catch) in you host HTML page.
>
> > > > > On Jul 28, 7:22 pm, makoki <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > We had recently discovered a bug in our application that came out
> > to
> > > > > > be a problem with google analytics integration and liked to know if
> > > > > > someone had any idea for a better way to integrate GA with GWT.
> > We've
> > > > > > been using GA in out GWT application for quite a time (nearly a
> > year)
> > > > > > without a problem but today we discovered that there's a problem
> > with
> > > > > > IE6 and GA when we browse the application through localhost or any
> > > > > > hostname that hasn't a complete domain (i.e. example.com) so
> > browsing
> > > > > > our app throughhttp://localhost/myapporhttp://netbiosname/myapp
> > > > > > raises the problem otherwise the integration works seamlesly, if we
> > > > > > use the IP or the public domain.
> > > > > > We've been tracking down the problem until we found it was the
> > > > > > _trackEvent(c,v,d,b) method of GA that was causing the problem
> > (we've
> > > > > > found it empirically :P)
> > > > > > We've used this explanation to integrate google analyticshttp://
> > code.google.com/p/gwt-examples/wiki/project_UrchinTracker
>
> > > > > > The ga.js script we downloaded directly from google last november
> > more
> > > > > > or less and we're currently using GWT 1.7.0 , all is working fine
> > > > > > except in the case explained above.
> > > > > > Any idea what's happening? Any alternative to integrate GA?
> > > > > > Thks
>
>
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