the biggest 'gotcha' with placing the google code at the end of the <body>
element is that the google code gets executed before the page's
domready/onload events are triggered.
this means if you're trying to display a SWF as quickly as possible, the
swfobject.embedSWF will not be invoked until AFTER google's code has loaded
and executed. your SWF's load time is therefore at the mercy of google's
servers. your alternate content will display until google's code is done
executing and swfobject is invoked via its domready/onload methods.
if you want to avoid having to wait for google's code to execute first, you
can wrap it in a domready event. if you're using a javascript framework
such as jQuery, MooTools or dojo, you can usually just write something like
window.addEvent("domready", function (){
//paste google analytics code here
});
if you don't use a framework, SWFObject has a built-in addEvent method you
can use. it's called addLoadEvent(fn)
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/api
You can use it like this:
swfobject.addLoadEvent(function (){
//paste google analytics code here
});
You can find plenty of examples of people hotrodding the analytics code to
work in an domready/onload event, just do a google search.
good luck
- philip
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Getify Solutions, Inc. <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> You know, I'll admit, I've had "issues" with GA code as well. Their
> documentation says to put it at the top of the page, but for page loading
> reasons, I did exactly as Aran suggests. And everything seems to work fine.
>
> Well, most everything. Actually, there are a couple of nagging things that
> don't seem to work correctly, and I'm not sure if it's because of my
> placement of GA.js or if it's just bugs with GA or problems with how I set
> it up.
>
> But anyway, even those nagging problems with GA are non-critical... all the
> main stuff I need works just fine as Aran suggests. But yeah, this is a
> confusing topic to get definitive answers on. Ask 10 people and you'll
> likely get 10 different opinions.
>
> --Kyle
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Aran Rhee" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 2:59 AM
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: Added Google Analytics, alternative content flashes on screen
>
> >
> > Where is you GA code?
> >
> > The proper place to put all GA includes and code execution is at the very
> > bottom of the page just before the </body> tag. This way all other code o
> > the page needed for rendering / display can execute without having to
> wait
> > for the response back from the Google servers.
> >
> > Just keep in mind that HTML renders in order as it is loaded...
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Aran
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> > Behalf Of saltedherring
> > Sent: Monday, 26 January 2009 12:17 PM
> > To: SWFObject
> > Subject: Added Google Analytics, alternative content flashes on screen
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have SWFObject on one of our sites and since adding Google Analytics
> > JavaScript code to the page there's now a delay and the alternative no-
> > flash content shows on screen for a split second (maybe longer on
> > slower machines). Is there some way around this to keep the
> > alternative stuff hidden until the page is processed or some other
> > approach maybe? It must be a common problem?
> >
> > Any help appreciated, thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> >
>
> >
>
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