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Google unleashes new Google analytics tracking code. The new tracking code is coined as ga.js andwill replace urchin.js.

What is special in the new tracking code?

The new tracking has got custom-make options and auto detection of https. The new code gets updated with the features getting released hereafter, the old urchin.js will not be receiving any updates hereafter. _trackview function takes the place of urchintracker. Trackview function can measure page views and custom links viz. flash, downloads etc. though counts those page views as extra page views.The users of the urchin.js can continue to use the code for another one full year, after that the code will not work.

How to change the tracking code?

Very easy, the unique UA number has to be replaced in the new code.

Features of new GA code that can be customised

Tracking virtual page views
Tracking downloaded files
Tracking a page in multiple accounts
Tracking subdomains
Track a visitor across domains using a link
Track a visitor across domains using a form
E-commerce transactions
Adding organic sources
Segmenting visitor types
Restrict cookie data to a subdirectory
Control data collection settings
Control session timeout
Control campaign conversion timeout
Custom campaign fields
Using the anchor with campaign data in URL
Setting keyword ignore preferences
Control the data sampling rate

Google analytics provides a snippet javascript code to be placed in all the webpages that require tracking.


Once a request for a file is placed, google uses first party cookies to track the various traffic metrics and send those back to the google analytics server. Read more about How Google Analytics work.

Google analytics completed its successful march for two years. Even then Google analytics is free!

Happy Birthday Google Analytics!!!!!

Google Analytics Brian Clifton says:

“If you surveyed FTSE 100 companies and asked them whether they were using analytics data to drive business decisions a lot of respondents would say ‘Eh? What’s web analytics?’, even though they had a product and were paying a lot of money for it.

“The issue of people just collecting data and not turning it into information exists within a lot of organisations. It’s not unique to any tool. The challenge for the industry is to spread knowledge and educate users about what to do with data.”

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Google Analytics has announced a new javascript tag with increased functionality. This new javascript code will reduce the slowness of the website, which some people has reported earlier.

Another feature is that, there will only single javascript code for tracking both secure and non secure pages.