i know it can track flash events from other flash banners/sites on other networks..
but can it from Adwords?
i found this code:
on (release) {
// Track with no action
getURL("javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/folder/file.html');");
}
but it seems to require a JS script on the page.
how does Adwords handle this?
thanks
-art
It should be fairly easy to try this and upload a banner to AdWords, but the following seems to imply that this is not allowed
http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=28427&topic=28431
"Extra calls: Your ad code cannot make external server calls for additional JavaScript or other functionality. All functionality must be localized to the code itself. "
Also if you want to use Google Analytics within Flash, refer to the following documentation :
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/flashTrackingIntro.html
(in your case it sounds like Bridge mode is what you are looking for).
Related
Google Maps show the message "For development purposes only" when I try to show it in my webpage:
How could I make this message go away?
My code is like that:
<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.exp&sensor=false"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function initialize() {
var myLatlng = new google.maps.LatLng(50.5792659,8.6744471);
var centerMap = new google.maps.LatLng(50.5792659,8.6744471);
var div = document.getElementById('map');
}
</script>
Then later I have
<p>
<a
href="https://www.google.com/maps/dir//50.5792659,8.6744471/#50.579266,8.674447,16z"
target="_blank"
>Route berechnen</a>
</p>
I don't see where this message originates from.
Google Maps is no longer free. You have to associate a credit card so that you can get billed if your site has requests that exceed the $200 credit they give you monthly for free. That is why you get the watermarked maps.
For more information, see: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/
Update:
A common problem with the new billing system is that you now have to activate each API separately. They all have different pricing (some are even free), so Google makes a point of having you enable them individually for your domain.
I was never a heavy user of Google Maps, but I get the feeling that there are many more APIs now than there used to be.
So if you're still getting a restricted usage message after you've enabled billing, find out what API you need exactly for the features you want to offer, and check if it's enabled.
The API settings are annoyingly hard to find.
Go to this link:
https://console.developers.google.com/apis/dashboard.
Then you select your project in the dropdown.
Go to library on the left pane.
Browse the available APIs and enable the one you need.
Watermarked with “for development purposes only” is returned when any of the following is true:
The request is missing an API key.
Billing has not been enabled on your account.
The provided billing method is invalid (for example an expired credit card).
A self-imposed daily limit has been exceeded.
As Victoria wrote, Google Maps is no longer free, but you can switch your map provider. You may be interested in OpenStreetMap, there is an easy way to use it on your site described here: https://handyman.dulare.com/switching-from-google-maps-to-openstreetmap/
Unfortunately, on the OpenStreetMap, there is no easy way to provide directions from one point to another, there is also no street view.
As recommended in a comment, I used the "Google Maps Platform API Checker" Chrome add-in to identify and resolve the issue.
Essentially, this add-in directed me to here where I was able to sign in to Google and create a free API key.
Afterwards, I updated my JavaScript and it immediately resolved this issue.
Old JavaScript: ...script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3" ...
Updated Javascript:...script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=*****GOOGLE API KEY******&v=3" ...
The add-in then validated the JS API call. Hope this helps someone resolve the issue quickly!
For my purposes I ended up using an alternative https://www.openstreetmap.org/ .
Now google maps is free for development only.
If you want to use map free like earlier, then create an account with
valid details (billing, payment, etc.) google gives $200 MONTHLY CREDIT
Which is EQUIVALENT To FREE USAGE
For more details please see Googles new price details: google map new
pricing
Also see the old price details: Old one
try this code it doesn't show “For development purposes only”
<iframe src="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=25.3076008,51.4803216&z=16&output=embed" height="450" width="600"></iframe>
If your mapTypeId is SATELLITE or HYBRID
well, it is just a watermark, you can hide it if you change the <div> that has z-index=100
I use
setInterval(function(){
$("*").each(function() {
if ($(this).css("zIndex") == 100) {
$(this).css("zIndex", "-100");
}
})}
, 10);
or you can use
map.addListener('idle', function(e) {
//same function
}
but it is not as responsive as setInterval
For me, Error has been fixed when activated Billing in google console. (I got 1-year developer trial)
It seems to me that when it displays the "For development purposes only", one cannot see the map configurations as well while developing(or rather playing around with the configurations).
In my case I have not enabled billing to be associated with the API I am using and I am thinking that's the reason why its behaving this way.
I know this may not be related to the question, but i had the same issue on Vue. Even though i passed the API_KEY, i still had the same error. I tried #Mike Dubs suggestion, and it showed that i didn't pass API KEY(even though i did).
I used vue2-google-maps library, and on documentation on how to setup google library with API KEY, they said that on main.js i should do an import like this:
import * as VueGoogleMaps from 'vue2-google-maps';
But on my case that didn't work, but this did work:
import * as VueGoogleMaps from
'./../node_modules/vue2-google-maps/src/main';
Why, how, i don't know, but i think that vue somehow didn't understand the import.
You can't use iframe tag in HTML, here's what you can do:
* just go into google maps point out your location
* click on "Share"
* go to "Embed a map"
* copy the HTML code
* paste it in your HTML page
* adjust height and width according to your requirement
* run it
This might work
Can anybody help me to find a solution how to make this code work on my Wix-Site:
Click here to opt-out of Google Analytics
I have this code from Google itself (At the bottom of the page see "example"):
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/
Here is a Screenshot of this code from the google website:
Google Analytics Opt Out Code
I tried this:
$w("#text1").html = "<a href='javascript:gaOptout()'>Click here to opt-out of Google Analytics</a>";
But I was told that in Wix it is not possible to add events to a-tag elements in text element. Here you will find the little discussion that I had on Wix Forum:
https://www.wix.com/code/home/forum/questions-answers/how-to-link-text-to-a-url-using-w-link
I also asked on Reddit, Facebook and WixSupport. But nobody could help me with that issue.
You might want to take a look at the new wix feature called "tracking and analytics". It lets you embed custom scripts in your html's body, header, or footer.
https://support.wix.com/en/article/about-tracking-tools-analytics
You cannot access the HTML directly via Wix Code. Wix Code exposes a dedicated API for you to manipulate their controllers and elements on screen but not further under the hood.
You can use wix-fetch to call external API calls to google analytics (if they have an API to opt-out, not familiar enough to say here is the post)
anyway, your code in Wix should be something like this:
(as example API taken from their docs)
import {fetch} from 'wix-data'
fetch('https://analyticsreporting.googleapis.com/v4/...', options) // returns a Promise
Is there is a tool or a solution that automatically checks if the GTM (Google Tag Manager) tags are working properly on a page?
I don't need it to do anything else except retrieve the bag of tags and let me know which any URLs where there is a problem with a tag.
I can only find manual validation checking and I would need to implement a solution for a large number of tags so automation would be most helpful.
There are a few paid services that I can think of:
Observepoint
Tag Inspector
I'm sure there are others, but those are the ones I've used.
You can also use GTM's error tracking to log client-side JS error. Doesn't really check to see what tags are firing, but will let you know when your JavaScript is having problems.
Good blog post here: Using Google Tag Manager to log JavaScript errors in Google Analytics
I wanted to get a definitive answer on here for later reference now that we have a stable Ember RC. A combination of the top 2 search results for emberjs google analytics reveals that this is a good way to do track route changes:
App.ApplicationController = Ember.Controller.extend
routeChanged: ( ->
return unless window._gaq
Em.run.next ->
page = if window.location.hash.length > 0 then window.location.hash.substring(1) else window.location.pathname
_gaq.push(['_trackPage', page])
).observes('currentPath')
but then I also see results for using Event Tracking for single page web applications.
I haven't tested the code above yet, it takes a few hours to propagate changes to the GA dashboard. Update: This doesn't show up under the Content category on my Google Analytics dashboard. Neither under "Pages" or "Events".
If anyone has advice or if there's something I'm missing somewhere let me know. I can also PR a guide for the website based on the answers here.
Alex DiLiberto gave a really nice talk about a robust & scalable way of adding Google Analytics to an ember app in his EmberConf 2014 talk here.
- Slides
- GitHub
App.ApplicationRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
actions: {
didTransition: function() {
Ember.run.once(this, function() {
ga('send', 'pageview', this.router.get('url'));
});
}
}
});
The talk was aiming to be independent of which analytics library was used.
There is also now an official Ember Cookbook on implementing Google Analytics here.
I would use _trackPageview for things that have routable URLs and _trackEvent for things that don't.
In the Event Tracking link when they refer to "Embedded AJAX page elements". They're not meaning SPA's, but rather those cases when the URL stays the same, but some event that you wish to track happens within the page (in the case via AJAX).
There may be other cases where it makes sense to use _trackEvent, but for route transitions I'd use _trackPageview.
Using routeChanged() is not a good way to track dynamic segments such as /category/food /category/something since it's going to be fired only once. I wrote an article about this here: http://www.randomshouting.com/2013/05/04/Ember-and-Google-Analytics.html. I also consulted with the guys behind Ember and confirmed that this is indeed the proper way to track url changes for Google Analytics.
Most of these answers are outdated. You should be using a mixin and adding it to your Router to listen for the didTransition event and fire your pageview there. That way it's handled for all routes. There are several addons out there, including one I wrote called ember tracker which gives you pageviews and event tracking out-of-the-box.
You can see how I did it here. It's fairly straight forward.
40k of compiled code seems like a lot to me to be making some straightforward flash-javascript calls and makes GA unsuitable for banner ad work as well.
Does anyone know if there is a 'lite' version of Google Analytics for Flash?
How about using directly the javascript functions? say:
ExternalInterface.call("pageTracker._trackPageview", "section/subsection");
ExternalInterface.call("pageTracker._trackEvent", "event", "cat", "label", "value");
I don't believe there is a lite version, similarly i don't believe google analytics intended its service be used for ad tracking. That being said, you should try compressing your swf. You can often shave off a big chunk of the file size especially from text source files.
http://www.compress-swf.com/
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/WEB-Design/Flash/swf-compressor.shtml
Cay
That should work but how would you pass your custom account ID?
ie
If using the GATracker object
var myTacker=GATracker(containerdisplayObject,'customaccountID','Bridge',false)
Depending on what you are trying to track, why not just have the flash call home. Posting some variables to a script that loads them in a database?
var counter:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
counter.gamename = gametitle; //set variables here
counter.sendAndLoad("http://your script", result_lv, "POST");
You will need to perform an ExternalInterface call from the flash back to the containing page.
Once you are back in the javascript you can use the javascript library that google provides to send custom events and page views back to google analytics.
It's important to distinguish between tracking events (typically a file download, a video being played, etc...) and pageviews. If you want to track navigation within a flash movie between different "pages" of flash content then you will probably want to use:
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker('UA-XXXXX-X');
pageTracker._trackPageview('/flash/my_first_page');
Note that this will contribute to your overall page views count.
From google:http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncMigrationExamples.html
Use the _trackPageview() method along with a URL you fabricate in
order to track clicks from users that do not lead to actual website
pages on your site. In general, we recommend you use Event Tracking
for tracking downloads, outbound links, PDFs or similar kinds of user
interactions. This is because virtual pageviews will add to your total
pageview count. However, if you want to configure goals based on
clicks to PDFs or downloads, you need to use this method (but be aware
that these clicks will be tallied as part of your overall pageview
count).