This weekend David Eckman of VKI Studios sent me an email about RIAForge. His company makes frequent use of RIAForge, and as a provider of Google Analytic implementation services, he wanted to let me know about a problem with the way I had set up the code.
RIAForge makes use of multiple, dynamic root URLs. So you have the main URL (http://www.riaforge.org) and multiple, dynamic project URLs (http://blogcfc.riaforge.org for example). My Analytics codes was not set up properly to handle multiple domains.
I had trouble finding the exact way to generate the right code via Google's interface, but luckily David sent me the mod directly. Here is the old code:
<script
type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" ==
document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost +
"google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker =
_gat._getTracker("UA-70863-8");
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>
And the modified version, note the line that sets the domain, third from the bottom:
<script
type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" ==
document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost +
"google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker =
_gat._getTracker("UA-70863-8");
pageTracker._setDomainName("riaforge.org");
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>
Since these guys make their money from this type of advice, I want to thank VKI Studios once again. They were also very cool with me blogging this.